• kredditacc
    14·
    11 months ago

    Can someone explains this map to me? The text says China leads, but the numbers say Vietnam is at 56.2%, greater than China’s 40%.

    • comfortablydumb@lemmy.mlEnglish
      26·
      11 months ago

      I mean, it’s pretty obvious… China is huge, Vietnam is tiny compared to it. The reforested area is, therefore, much larger in China.

      • ImOnADiet
        11·
        11 months ago

        Also vietnam is still recovering from the war I imagine

        • PolandIsAStateOfMind
          181·
          11 months ago

          It’s hard to take care of the forest when there is still tons of inexploded murican ordnance in it.

            • 201dberg
              4·
              11 months ago

              “Free and democratic chemical warfare”

              That’s good. I’m stealing that.

        • Franfran2424
          3·
          11 months ago

          the forests are well recovered from the war. it was 50 years ago, and the monsoons really make growth relatively easy.

    • 🏳️‍⚧️ 新星 [she/they]English
      17·
      11 months ago

      The map is the forest area in 2020, relative to existing forest area in 1990 (no change would be 0%).

      So, if you count by absolute area, China leads, and if you count by relative area, Uruguay leads.

    • NikkiB
      12·
      11 months ago

      It’s forest added, not amount of forest

    • jlyws123
      12·
      11 months ago

      You know Vietnam is a tropical country.