![]() ![]() The Chinese government banned logging virgin forest around the Yangtze’s Tibetan headwaters after “massive soil erosion” produced a disastrous flood in 1998. Although the sources of most great Asian waterways are found in Tibet, Chinese-built mega-dams have caused rivers to dry up and deltas to shrink, while extensive mining operations have polluted other channels. ![]() But during the country’s market revolution in the 1980s, the Chinese turned their focus to the area’s material resources. For decades after its 1950 invasion of the region, China concentrated on suppressing traditional Tibetan culture, social structure, and religion (most visibly by destroying temples). Reports of worldwide environmental degradation rarely mention the remote Tibetan plateau, but journalist and travel writer Buckley rectifies this omission with his detailed, dismal account of the damage there. ![]()
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