Comment on Your Monthly Dose of Good News | September

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• xylogx@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It makes sense to be skeptical of news coming out of an authoritarian regime where information flows are carefully managed by the state. That said satellite imagery seems to show progress on holding back the desert and to me that is objectively good news.

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  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is it such a good thing? I’m real skeptical.

    That desert has been seen contracting in at least the past 26 years, if not consistently, and it’s been an inhabited desert for over 10,000 years. The only graphs I can see claiming the Gobi was rapidly expanding are on Great Green Wall propaganda articles.

    If China continues to expand into the desert for profit it could lead to losses of history, culture, and habitat.

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    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Does National Geographic count as a reliable source or is it all Green Wall propaganda?

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      • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Even the Archive of the page has the paywall, annoyingly https://web.archive.org/web/20260115182034/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/china-great-green-wall-gobi-tengger-desertification

        Well their only citations are:

        • One anecdotal account

        • Feng Wang, associate professor at the Institute of Desertification Studies at the Chinese Academy of Forestry

        • And the movie “Interstellar”.

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