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Lol, they won't be able to tackle climate change until they adopt the political system of the people who are far, far worse on climate change
Looks like Xi’s anti-corruption initiatives worked. How’s the west doing btw?
Beijing has one of the worst air pollution problems in the world, while 70% of China's rivers are contaminated. In the south, Himalayan glaciers are melting; in the north, encroaching deserts are threatening the livelihoods of 400 million people.
Damn. 15 years sure go by fast.
the priority of every government - central and local - is to boost businesses and jobs.
The lack of political reform - a subject notable by its absence from Mr Wen's speech - is at least partly to blame. With little or no democratic accountability, the ruling class of communist cadres and bureaucrats are often closer to the polluters than to the people who suffer from a poor living environment.
Corruption and cover-ups are rife, and usually found to be principle factors in major pollution spills. If the prime minister really wants to clean up China, he should start by making politics less
The Guardian must love Xi for all he did then.
It's so funny how Xi did everything they said was necessary to redirect the course of the country, and now they're pissed about it
china genocided the deserts
oh yeah for everyone that doesnt know what china is doing in regards to the environment and green energy https://asiatimes.com/2021/11/china-offers-solutions-to-climate-change/
Aren't anti-desertification initiatives generally just planting lines of trees and shrubs to stop the soil from being blown about and eroded away and to create cooler pockets for more native species to thrive in? They're more about restoring/expanding the previous environment, just in a way that's more robust against the things that drive desertification.
deserts actually do have lots of species that live there
deserts have some of the lowest biodiversity on the planet, and virtually no biomass. There is 10x less biomass in a desert than in grassland, and 70x less than in a forest.
you could add up all the animals and plants that lived in all of the world's deserts, it'd be an equivalent amount of life to New England + NY state
Also there'd be the formation of new life that wouldn't have otherwise existed, plus the partial reversal of global warming
of course, desert creatures are interesting and should be preserved. But turning deserts into greenery is just too big to pass up, you could literally use all of the newly acquired resources to feed those desert animals + have a huge surplus left over
My understanding is that they're focusing on areas that the desert has expanded to over decades, not actually destroying long-standing desert biomes.
Did Xi save china from a trajectory of liberalization or was it less dire than that?
projection level: you drank a quart of orange juice and are on a 5 hour car ride
