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

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        Also vietnam is still recovering from the war I imagine

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

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              “Free and democratic chemical warfare”

              That’s good. I’m stealing that.

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          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]
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      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
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      It’s forest added, not amount of forest

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      You know Vietnam is a tropical country.