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China Planted 78 Billion New Trees, and Seriously Messed Up Its Water Cycle
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this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2026
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You obviously don't know anything about about forestry so why say anything at all? Tree planting doesn't magically create ecosystems.
Mass tree planting creates homogeneous forests that have no undergrowth or biodiversity. They don't retain water and are usually the forests that burn up during fire season. China created a bunch of tree farms not forests lol.