#emeraldization

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China has planted so many trees it's changed the entire country's water distribution

Huge "regreening" efforts in China over the past few decades have activated the country's water cycle and moved water in ways that scientist

Collectively, China's ecosystem restoration initiatives account for 25% of the global net increase in leaf area between 2000 and 2017.

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How about all the roads and rails have this? Would really help several issues at once including air quality and pedestrian fatalities

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Ending green deserts would help us psychologically/physically a lot, this is about ground coverage mostly but canopy cover is also key (maybe large geodesic trellises, I'm volunteering hempcrete beams as the material for the structures but it'll probably be a task figuring out what will best hold up long term under vegetation)

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