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Simon Brooke
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp last week

It's widely reported that #China has been building out huge amounts of #solar photovoltaic generation, and of course that is a big contributor to slowing #ClimateChange. But what I discovered to my surprise this week is that China is also #Reforesting faster than almost anywhere else on Earth, which is an equally important contributor, and also contributes positively to the #Oxygen cycle.

https://ourworldindata.org/deforestation

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Deforestation and Forest Loss

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Dash
@dash@social.coop replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@simon_brooke @yogthos Plot does appear to be absolute rather than normalised to country size, so in another sense this plot is showing that China is bigger than India.

But green is good 👍

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Queen of Teacups
@JMacfie@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@simon_brooke @yogthos Economist in the Chinese Govt told me 9 years ago this:
They'd worked out that every $1 increase in their GDP resulting from following Western methods was costing them $1.50 in pollution.
" So we're changing that", he said. And they have..

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