Where’d that desert come from?...
Posted by philo in
China Watch,
Olympics on 04 17th, 2006 |
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Did you know Beijing, China’s capital and the pending site for the 2008 summer Olympics, is now in the middle of a desert? That’s right folks, thanks to rapid overdevelopment, destructive practices of water use, and widespread deforestation, the Gobi Desert has expanded at an alarming rate....