• comfortablydumb@lemmy.ml
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    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.

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      11 months ago

      Also vietnam is still recovering from the war I imagine

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        11 months ago

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

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            11 months ago

            “Free and democratic chemical warfare”

            That’s good. I’m stealing that.

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        11 months ago

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