April 11, 2004
“According to government statistics, 42 billion trees have been planted since 1982. Last year alone, the effort involved more than 560 million people. In the latest phase of the effort, announced two years ago, China plans to plant trees in an area of 170,000 square miles ” just over the size of California ” over a decade.”
“And yet for all their efforts, officials are hard pressed to answer two fundamental questions: has tree planting on this scale done any good, and what has it cost?”
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