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The author should go to China to see how the environment has been "liberated".

The western world has outsourced pollution to the third world, thinking that it would stop at the borders.

The more I read western news (and make no mistake, I'm a westerner) the more I'm under the impression of reading the "Pravda" back in its glorious days : "sleep well people everything is OK".

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The author focuses on land use, and forest area is actually growing in Asia.

http://www.earth-policy.org/indicators/C56/forests_2012

The bad players are actually South America and Africa wrt deforestation, Oceania is about neutral and forest growing everywhere else.

Total forest cover is a crude statistic. Primary forests in Asia, where the majority of biodiversity resides, continue to be felled at alarming rates.

This article goes against the popular narrative that everything is getting worse and therefore will be an irritant to those who hold that dogma.

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