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China has grown more new forest cover than any nation on Earth (media.mas.to)

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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-30-years-of-deforestation-and-forest-growth-by-country/

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A disfunctional system isn't the same as a totalitarian one. Both are bad, yes, but they're not one and the same.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's funny how when the US does something wrong, it's never a reflection on its essential character, and yet the fucking Four Pests Campaign or whatever is a fundamental reflection of the ideology of Chinese Communism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Ah whoops we killed a million people in Iraq, but you know, insert Churchill democracy quote while throwing tarp over one billion dead indians

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

us-foreign-policy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Aw lol you think capitalism isn't supposed to function this way

One of the most sobering moments of my life was realizing that our system isn't "broken", it's functioning exactly as intended.