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about forest related smuggling?
Chaos theory has taught us that when a butterfly flaps its wings along the Amazon it can cause a hurricane in China. Logically that seems improbable but you can't argue with chaos. Ask any mother trying to clean up after a family of small kids. Less well known is that the Chinese hurricanes have decimated the forests there and China is desperately short of the benefits of having their own rain forests.
That would be a major problem for less inventive people than the Chinese but their history is a who's-who of great warriors like Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, and Sun Tzu whose legacy, The Art of War, is still studied today. Chinese scholars like Confucius and Lao Tzu added to the world's wisdom. China is the land that gave us gunpowder printing, the magnetic compass, and noodles. Isn't it reasonable to think that they might find a way to solve this inconvenient problem?
And solve it they did.
Drawing on their greatest resource -- population! -- the secretly flew five million Chinese nationals into Brazil in one million hot air balloons. Disguised as members of the Chinese Olympic Swimming Team nobody suspected their purpose. Under cover of night they loaded an entire rain forest onto their balloons, flew them cross-country over Peru and Ecuador, then home to China where the trees were planted along the Yellow River.
So the world's first forest smuggling operation was completed only this year under the very nose of the Brazilians.
Footnote: A lot of Amazonian butterflies were caught up in the smuggling operation. If they start flapping their wings along the Yellow River it's anybody's guess where the next hurricanes are likely to be.
That would be a major problem for less inventive people than the Chinese but their history is a who's-who of great warriors like Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, and Sun Tzu whose legacy, The Art of War, is still studied today. Chinese scholars like Confucius and Lao Tzu added to the world's wisdom. China is the land that gave us gunpowder printing, the magnetic compass, and noodles. Isn't it reasonable to think that they might find a way to solve this inconvenient problem?
And solve it they did.
Drawing on their greatest resource -- population! -- the secretly flew five million Chinese nationals into Brazil in one million hot air balloons. Disguised as members of the Chinese Olympic Swimming Team nobody suspected their purpose. Under cover of night they loaded an entire rain forest onto their balloons, flew them cross-country over Peru and Ecuador, then home to China where the trees were planted along the Yellow River.
So the world's first forest smuggling operation was completed only this year under the very nose of the Brazilians.
Footnote: A lot of Amazonian butterflies were caught up in the smuggling operation. If they start flapping their wings along the Yellow River it's anybody's guess where the next hurricanes are likely to be.
