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China Planted 78 Billion New Trees, and Seriously Messed Up Its Water Cycle
(www.popularmechanics.com)
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this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2026
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Popular Mechanics is US-based, so they use short billions: 1bio = 1 000 000 000.
You are right, long billions (1bio = 1 000 000 000 000) would be a lot more. Though even that would still be possible, but then ~35% of the chinese population would have to be employed in planting trees.