[Buddha-l] Tibet China - not about self-immolations

[Dan Lusthaus]

Chris and Richard,

The reason I included the whole article instead of simply a link to the url 
is the more general information about the environmental devastation the 
Chinese have been wreaking, which is well described in the second half of 
the article.

The Chinese are now infamous for buying up a resource, and then sending 
their OWN workers there to cultivate and collect it. They are quietly doing 
it around the globe -- Asia, Africa, South America, even the US and Canada, 
and already have an ownership lock on many of the world's most precious 
and/or necessary resources. They keep their workers in all-Chinese camps, 
and set up little mini-villages typically largely in isolation from the 
surrounding general population. They don't treat their own workers very 
well, and would probably treat native workers even worse, so not employing 
Tibetans is a mixed blessing. Protest and dissatisfaction to this Chinese 
practice remains local -- there is no global protest movement yet.

I heartily agree with Richard's suggestion that a body is something everyone 
should have.

Dan