It’s difficult to talk about the environment in China and not feel completely worried about how on earth anyone could possibly sort this mess out. What stands out the most to the outside observer is that the land, this country, is here for the benefit of man. It’s as simple as that, or so it would seem. The Chinese have been shaping and controlling the environment here, in often ingenious and creative ways, for eons, but nonetheless it has been bent and buckled and stretched and swamped, drained and flooded, mined and filled in, and we only need to see Michael Jacksons face (RIP) to see what happens when one goes too far in trying to fix what wasn’t broken in the first place. Eventually it caves in, bits drop off that weren’t meant too and
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