Over the past decades China has undertaken a large reforestation project in the norther part of the country, which has been widely successful. They had planted something like 70B trees. However what they came across was that while the project worked in stopping desertification and reforesting the area, that the new forests created a serious impact on the ground water supply, which in China is already scarce in the northern part of the country, so now they have to import large quantities of water from the south and from other places. Will the sort of large scale reforestation projects that are being proposed around the world not face a problem of increasing water shortages as things continue getting worse?

Also for the movie I thought it was strange the criticism focused on claims of overpopulation, the movie never really put forth any such arguments from what i remember, it just addressed that overconsumption and overproduction is present in our society. Overpopulation is a really dumb prevailing narrative though.

Is direct air capture tech like this stuff very inefficient or does it have any real possibility to actually sequester carbon directly? Also what’s your opinion of Planet of the Humans if you’ve watched it? I thought it was weird how intense the backlash was to basically a film that just showed the very real downsides of renewables and pointed out correctly that green capitalism will not work and we can’t just shift everything to renewable and go on as we are right now without significantly addressing overproduction and overconsumption here.

A large amount of the mainstream information surrounding the camps comes from defectors like Kim Young-il who ran away when he was 19 and wrote a best selling book about the camps, which he later admitted to largely lying about since there were such large incentives for such a story in the west. There are other instances of defectors and dissidents admitting to making up things and lying.

The white red white flag was always a nationalist symbol, thats why the Nazis used it when they took over in order to fuel anti soviet sentiment. Its absolutely a symbol of the right and inherently anti communist.