If deforestation and global warming is all just politics, why did Beijing start following Western thinking?!
Chopsticks = Choptrees
Straits Times, WORLD section page 40, under the Slice of Life section, Saturday, August 11 2007:
Beijing announced the end of use of disposable chopsticks in China as part of the campaign for a 2008 “green” Olympics.
“Restaurants should (permanently) abandon the use of disposable chopsticks for the good of their health and environment,” the China Daily paraphrased China Cuisine Association secretary-general Bian Jiang as saying.
In other words, it will not be a temporary gimmick for the Olympics, it’s for real!
Quoting from New Internationalist:
China is severely short of trees only – 13.9 per cent of its 9.6 million square kilometres is covered by forest. Its amount of forest land per capita is ranked 121st in the world. Now 12 of the 40 state-owned logging companies have nothing left to fell. ‘The remaining 80 million hectares of natural forests will disappear in a decade if this felling continues,’ says Professor Shen Guofang, of Beijing Forestry University.