Huh losers. Deforestation is an indicator of a growing economy. China is collapsing
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2025
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It's a waste, I tell you! All that water getting trapped in the trees and not plastic bottles.
That article is actually good, though. Its just a stupid headline.
Obviously chinas massive engineering projects are going to effect the environment, sometimes in negative and unexpected ways. Their best universities are studying those effects.
That article is actually good, though. Its just a stupid headline.
Common result of headlines being written by editors instead of the person who wrote the article
Better to chop them all down and make half of it a golf course and the other half an AI data center.
Altering the climate in any way except through recreational tire fires is communism! 
Removing those trees in the first place changed the water cycle too.
its being changed chinesely now
At what cost???
China could find the cure for cancer and Westerners would still find a way to call Xi Jinping evil because of it.
"But at what cost?" 
Riiiiight, because desertification never dries out anything.
Unlike me, I just cut down all the trees. That surely has no consequences whatsoever he he he he
You know even if there was an underlying adverse ecological impact, the cool thing about planting too many trees is you can just cut them down again WAYYY easier than if you needed to plant another forest.
I know which problem I'd rather have is all I'm saying.
The water changed place, what an irremediable tragedy, everybody knows there's no way to transport water
This is a little bit simplistic, local hydrology could change, like rainfall patterns or the presence/absence of water courses and aquifers. Rainfall in an environment can't really be replaced by transported water. For some areas it could result in habitat loss or change and species loss or change. For agriculture yes it could possibly be piped in but this still requires building sufficient infrastructure to replace the loss of flows, and in the meantime some people may no longer be able to earn an income/work the land. This is not to say that I don't broadly support afforestation and reforestation efforts, but to say that it's just water moving from one place to another is missing the river for the trees.
missing the river for the trees
we are digging the flaying pit right now, please come with me
Okay, makes sense, thank you for the effortpost, very informative!
No probs!
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CAWST?!?!?
using water for trees to capture carbon and create natural habitats for wildlife
using water for cooling AI data centers because air conditioning costs a lil more
who will stand up to the sino-conifer menace?
i will not be breathing the chinese air. i’ll accept chinese plastics in my blood stream if american corporations profit off it but how are they gonna make any money off some trees in china that aren’t even being planted just to be harvested like all the trees in america are?
Think of all the Pokémon cards those could become
Popular Mechanics Understand the Biotic Pump Challenge: Impossible
oh no, ebil seeseepee caught planting too much trees 
The Chinese are raising an army of communist ents to wage war against the west. This is why we should launch a pre-emptive invasion and firebombing campaign.