China’s biggest tree-planting effort is the Great Green Wall in the country’s arid and semi-arid north. Started in 1978, the Great Green Wall was created to slow the expansion of deserts. Over the last five decades, it has helped grow forest cover from about 10% of China’s area in 1949 to more than 25%
Collectively, China’s ecosystem restoration initiatives account for 25% of the global net increase in leaf area between 2000 and 2017.
The one good thing about China’s authoritarianism is that they can plan and execute over the long term. Meanwhile, in America, we can implode over the course of a couple of years.
Chinese authoritarianism is more effective at improving the lives of more people than American authoritarianism