https://danwang.co/2022-letter/
"Mountains offer the best hiding places from the state.
There were a lot of state controls to escape from in 2022. Two days before
Shanghai locked down in April, I was on the final flight from the city to
Yunnan, the province in China’s farthest southwest. Yunnan’s landmass—slightly
smaller than that of California’s—features greater geographic variation than
most countries. Its north is historic Tibet, while the south feels much like
Thailand. People visit the province for its spectacular nature views:
rainforest, rice terraces, fast rivers, and snowy mountains. Otherwise tourists
are drawn to its ethnic exoticism. As many as half of the country’s
officially-recognized ethnic groups have a substantial presence there,
including many of those that have historically resisted Han rule.
As Shanghai’s lockdown became protracted, a trip planned to last days grew into
one that lasted months. Wandering through Yunnan gave me a chance to
contemplate the culture of the mountains."
Via
Future Crunch:
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https://futurecrunch.com/good-news-nuclear-ocean-chile-climate-change-solution/>
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
