Another illustration

I complained again yesterday, and I have complained before, that Beijing's overabundance of trees is a major cause of the localized 'desertification' this city suffers. Again, some of my readers had questioned whether I wasn't overstating the case. Is there really a tree every two or three yards along the sidewalk? Is every single one of them really surrounded by a square yard of dust bowl? YES. The camera does not lie. There are, I would guess, well upwards of a million bloody trees in Beijing, and every one of them is surrounded by a mini desert.