smellbeard

break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed

[DPRK News Service @DPRK_News]

Fond memories of dear friend Dolly Parton immortalized from summit of Mt Paektu.

[Sturgeon's Law @Sturgeons_Law]

Justin Trudeau in his dreams at night

[Adam Threeze @ChalicothereX]

Canada belt and road when
belt and road how to join
belt and road application form
belt and road application en francais

[Лаура 🦠 @ecto_fun]

the realest reaction to massive attack i ever seen

[Friends of Socialist China @socialist_china]

Xi Jinping: "We will protect nature and the environment as we do our own lives."

[professional hog groomer @bidetmarxman]

They’re the same picture

[Yejin Gim @gimyejin]

I don't know why but I saw an "Alliance to destroy Elon Musk's testicles with a spinning kick" flag yesterday 😭😭😭

[Parks Canada @ParksCanada]

The Ross River Dena Council, the @yukongov, and Parks Canada are pleased to announce their commitment to explore protection and conservation options in the Yukon, including assessing the suitability and feasibility of a national park reserve. ➡️ https://t.co/4nUDRrs3Cb

[Government of Yukon @yukongov]

Representatives of Ross River Dena Council, the Government of Yukon, and Parks Canada sign a Memorandum of Understanding to explore feasibility of potentially establishing a new protected area in the Yukon. Read more: https://t.co/jjKulNFRj1

#GC @ParksCanada @GCIndigenous @GovCanNorth

[smellbeard @smellbeard]

@bidetmarxman Canada is a US client state. But also Paul Gross made this movie already: https://t.co/pMT5vv7C8p

[smellbeard @smellbeard]

@bidetmarxman https://t.co/BS57XpsXIm

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is again a project of an unfathomable scale that's just been completed in China and barely anyone has heard of it in the rest of the world

China has just finished constructing a continuous 3,046-kilometer (1,892-mile) green barrier - made of plants and trees - completely encircling the Taklamakan Desert, the world's second-largest shifting sand desert which is about the size of Germany (!).

To put this in perspective, this is like building a living wall from Paris to Istanbul, or from Los Angeles to Chicago – except they built it in one of the world's most inhospitable environments.

They spent about 40 years building this "green wall". The final 285 kilometers was completed in 2024 on November 28. They built the "wall" with desert-hardy plants like Populus euphratica (desert poplar), Haloxylon (saxaul), and Tamarix (salt cedar), along with innovative sand-control engineering and solar panel installations.

The objective of the project is to contain the desert's expansion and to protect surrounding agricultural areas and cities from sandstorms. Before this project, many towns in the region had to be relocated multiple times due to encroaching sand. For instance, the town of Qira in Xinjiang had to move three times in its history, with sand dunes once approaching as close as 1.5 kilometers from the town center.

This is easily one of human history's most ambitious and grandest ecological engineering projects. It's insane when you think about it: completely containing a desert the size of Germany!

And it's also insane how little attention this has received globally: sadly we've apparently lost the capacity to be impressed by such a project, let alone have the boldness of vision to conceive of one ourselves. All resulting in the fact that whilst China is out there completing 40-year missions to tame entire deserts, we can barely fix potholes in our roads.

[Garry Hayes @geotripper]

I'm feeling this so much right now.

[Boeckner @d_boeckner]

Kkklassic Kkkanada

[克劳德·洛克哈特 Cloud Lockhart 🇨🇳 @li_dawei98]

China should control ALL farmland in America. RETWEET IF YOU AGREE

[professional hog groomer @bidetmarxman]

The rise of Trump and Trumpism cannot be fully explained without first recognizing how, over the last two decades, American politics has been shaped by the rise of China. 🧵