@Magnifico, what is wrong with the data and analyses that have led many to conclude that cattle farming affects deforestation and global warming? Are there good sources for opposing arguments - ie, evidence that there is no, or little, effect? What are they? I'm not asking you to prove a negative, just for enough evidence to demonstrate that the problem is not worth worrying about.
@tiger, you have a point about how different laws in different countries just tend to shift the sources of global problems from one place to another. What does this tell you about solving global problems, which affect everyone?
Around Town: Yunnan University Museum of Anthropology
发布者Looks like there are indeed some interesting exhibits. However, I get the impression that the focus of the museum is primarily on non-Han peoples and/or on somewhat 'exotic' practices, whereas anthropology in fact can and does include the study of any and all human cultural practices. It is often the typical behaviour and culture of 'ordinary' people, whenever and whatever that might involve, that is the least understood, perhaps because all too many of us assume that we already understand it.
Burmese hardwoods logged to brink of extinction
发布者But of course the Chinese state has been extremely responsible, environmentally, for banning logging in China in 1998 - since when Chinese loggers have been raping northern Myanmar.
Burmese hardwoods logged to brink of extinction
发布者Isn't profit-driven development wonderful?
Kunming neighborhoods face water rationing
发布者@Kate, your question: I think anyone can do this.
Scores of Kunming officials investigated for corruption
发布者Crackdown on corruption, ok - but then there has been an unleashing of mindcops.