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China Planted 78 Billion New Trees, and Seriously Messed Up Its Water Cycle (www.popularmechanics.com)

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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Popular Mechanics is US-based, so they use short billions: 1bio = 1 000 000 000.

You are right, long billions (1bio = 1 000 000 000 000) would be a lot more. Though even that would still be possible, but then ~35% of the chinese population would have to be employed in planting trees.