probably the easiest part of this whole idea is the actual planting, and that unto itself is pretty difficult with the numbers at play here. what's going to severely complicate it and gum up the...
probably the easiest part of this whole idea is the actual planting, and that unto itself is pretty difficult with the numbers at play here. what's going to severely complicate it and gum up the works to the point where this will never be perfectly viable is finding the institutional and political backing necessary to ensure it'd be sustainable, to get it going in the places it needs to happen, and to ensure that people don't just go on to log or kill the trees later when they start to mature (among many other things). there's a reason why people have been proposing something like this for probably decades now, but it hasn't really come to fruition--it's just exceedingly difficult to organize on the scale necessary while also actually making it a sustainable, worthwhile endeavor.
I agree that it's definitely not going to be easy (or cheap), logistically or politically. However at least one country that I know of has already started making significant inroads towards the...
I agree that it's definitely not going to be easy (or cheap), logistically or politically. However at least one country that I know of has already started making significant inroads towards the goal:
More than 6.66 million hectares (32,500 square miles) of new forest will be planted in 2018, with the People’s Liberation Army reassigning tens of thousands of infantry, with additional help from the police force.
The initiative is part of a wider plan to increase China’s overall level of forestation from 21.7 percent to 23 percent by the end of the decade, and to 26 percent by 2035.
mostly because china doesn't have the stopgaps and checks and balances of a democratic system that would inhibit or impede the progress of a similar plan in a democratic country like france or the...
mostly because china doesn't have the stopgaps and checks and balances of a democratic system that would inhibit or impede the progress of a similar plan in a democratic country like france or the US. more or less, what the regime wants will happen, and what it doesn't want will not, and there are very few half measures of shades or gray between those two.
100%. I romanticize the effectiveness of autocracy and increasingly wonder if it will be necessary for the world, but still wouldnt want to live in one.
100%. I romanticize the effectiveness of autocracy and increasingly wonder if it will be necessary for the world, but still wouldnt want to live in one.
probably the easiest part of this whole idea is the actual planting, and that unto itself is pretty difficult with the numbers at play here. what's going to severely complicate it and gum up the works to the point where this will never be perfectly viable is finding the institutional and political backing necessary to ensure it'd be sustainable, to get it going in the places it needs to happen, and to ensure that people don't just go on to log or kill the trees later when they start to mature (among many other things). there's a reason why people have been proposing something like this for probably decades now, but it hasn't really come to fruition--it's just exceedingly difficult to organize on the scale necessary while also actually making it a sustainable, worthwhile endeavor.
I agree that it's definitely not going to be easy (or cheap), logistically or politically. However at least one country that I know of has already started making significant inroads towards the goal:
60,000 Chinese troops are about to plant enough trees to cover Utah
China once again proving that if nothing else their regime gets shit done
mostly because china doesn't have the stopgaps and checks and balances of a democratic system that would inhibit or impede the progress of a similar plan in a democratic country like france or the US. more or less, what the regime wants will happen, and what it doesn't want will not, and there are very few half measures of shades or gray between those two.
100%. I romanticize the effectiveness of autocracy and increasingly wonder if it will be necessary for the world, but still wouldnt want to live in one.