The Grass Is Greener In China & What We Can Learn From It
Painting everything green — even stapling plastic leaves to bare trees.
China’s been making great strides to appear more environmentally friendly. With their notorious reputation for pollution and carbon emissions, it comes as no surprise that they have been making efforts to paint a greener picture.
It has, however, come to light that China’s government has been painting their natural environment green to give the illusion of being cleaner and more eco-friendly. Now, that might seem like a positive step forward to some extent, but the paints they’re using are unsafe for the environment and even toxic to humans.
One of China’s most notable green landscape paintings can be seen in their efforts to restore the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The plateau is a fragile ecosystem and has been home to many rare and endangered species, and it has suffered immensely due to human activities like mining and tourism.
In an ineffective effort to restore the area, China has been using green paint to cover up the barren patches of land to make it appear as though the grass has regrown.
It looks pretty from a distance, but by…
