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Jonathan S. Watts
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“mainstream thought, Utopia was not about nature, it was about people.”
― When A Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind -- Or Destroy It
― When A Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind -- Or Destroy It
“On the black market, a single animal could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. The bones, used in tonics, were the most valuable part: the 25 kilograms yielded by the average tiger can fetch 2.4 million yuan ($343,000), about ten times the price of a pelt.21”
― When A Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind -- Or Destroy It
― When A Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind -- Or Destroy It
“The range of natural and human life in Yunnan is greater than anywhere else in China. The province covers 4 percent of the nation’s land area, but it is home to more half of the country’s vertebrates, higher plant species, and orchids as well as 72 percent of the country’s endangered animals, many of which cannot be found anywhere else in the world.”
― When A Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind -- Or Destroy It
― When A Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind -- Or Destroy It
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