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China Planted 78 Billion New Trees, and Seriously Messed Up Its Water Cycle
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It's not vastly more than every Chinese person planting 1 tree a year. If you pay people to plant 10 trees a day, 5 days a week, 48 weeks a year you only need to employ one person in every 2400 to get close.