Mother Jones: China’s Crazy Plan to Keep Sand From Swallowing the World
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„The view[nbsp]from the top of this windblown hill in Duolun County, in China’s Inner Mongolia region, could be described[nbsp]as either profoundly inspiring or deeply strange. For miles around, the earth is dun-colored and dry, stubbled with yellow grass. But the hillsides directly across from me are emblazoned with vast swaths of trees planted in geometric shapes: a square, a circle, overlapping triangles. The flatland below is striped with bands of identical young pines, standing in rigid formation like soldiers on parade.“