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paleotn

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7. China. A country fighting climate change driven desertification tooth and nail.
Sat Jun 15, 2024, 07:37 AM
Jun 2024

At the same time increasing their biblical amounts of CO2 emissions. They're going to lose the fight. And we always thought the Chinese think in far longer blocks of time than the West, making them somehow smarter. That may be but still doesn't shield them from cataclysmic blunders. Instead of fighting for industrial resources, the next major wars will be over food and water. Probably the reasons for the first wars our species fought.

https://cdn.greensoft.mn/uploads/users/1277/files/Greenmongolia/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%B0%D0%B4/Mongolian_steppe_studies/Article_Gadaad_PDF/Wang_Chinadesertifreview_EarthScience_2008.pdf

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