• China announces ban on ivory trade by end of 2017
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[quote]Conservation groups hailed the decision as "historic" and a "game-changer" for the future of elephants. The move follows a resolution at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) in South Africa in October. China has the biggest ivory market in the world - some estimates suggest 70% of the world's trade ends up there. Ivory can reach $1,100 (£850) per kilogram in China. 'Great leadership' China's State Council announced the details of the ban on Friday. The commercial processing and sale of ivory will stop by 31 March, and all registered traders will then be phased out, bringing a full halt to the market by the end of the year. Conservation group WWF welcomed the latest news, calling it a "historic announcement... signalling an end to the world's primary legal ivory market and a major boost to international efforts to tackle the elephant poaching crisis in Africa". Elly Pepper, deputy director of wildlife trade for the Natural Resources Defense Council, praised China for its "great leadership" on the issue. "Setting such an aggressive timeline to close - once and for all - the largest domestic ivory market in the world is globally significant. "It's a game changer and could be the pivotal turning point that brings elephants back from the brink of extinction," she said. While the international market in ivory has been closed since 1989, legal domestic markets have continued in many countries around the world. A surge in the killing of elephants over the past seven years has seen populations across Africa shrink by a third, according to the recently published Great Elephant Census.[/quote] [url]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-38470861?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook[/url]
China is becoming more and more environmentally and ecologically conscious, I love it
That's a full year for people to flex the laws to work for them. Why so long when everyone else has banned the trade already? The only people it would be hurting is people who should of been out of it at most 20 years ago.
[QUOTE=pentium;51604377]That's a full year for people to flex the laws to work for them. Why so long when everyone else has banned the trade already? The only people it would be hurting is people who should of been out of it at most 20 years ago.[/QUOTE] Better late than when the elephants and rhinos are extinct already.
China is gonna be more environmentally friendly than America by 2017 and beyond Its an overstatement, but its getting there
Ima start learning mandarin and forgetting english
Why do I get the feeling it will be far from the end of it? [url]https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/27/china-accused-of-defying-its-own-ban-on-breeding-tigers-to-profit-from-body-parts[/url]
[QUOTE=Lolkork;51604562]i love china[/QUOTE] Why? They have done a few environmentally good things that barely affect them and still are shitting on a majority of their population.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;51604372]China is becoming more and more environmentally and ecologically conscious, I love it[/QUOTE] It's a sorry state of affairs when the technocratic dystopia that executes and harvests the organs of white-collar criminals and drug users [b]is becoming more ecologically progressive than the United States is turning[/b]. Land of the free and home of the brave.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;51604372]China is becoming more and more environmentally and ecologically conscious, I love it[/QUOTE] I'd be amazed if people could drop the facemasks forever.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;51604384]Better late than when the elephants and rhinos are extinct already.[/QUOTE] Fun fact, elephants are now being born with smaller or no tusks because we keep killing all the ones with tusks and so the genetics that make them have tusks isn't being passed on. It's like human influenced evolution.
[QUOTE=Rocâ„¢;51608266]I'd be amazed if people could drop the facemasks forever.[/QUOTE] We're all gonna need them in the future. Well, you guys are. I live in a coastal town. I'm gonna be dead by the time your kids go to college.
[QUOTE=DOCTOR LIGHT;51608261]It's a sorry state of affairs when the technocratic dystopia that executes and harvests the organs of white-collar criminals and drug users [b]is becoming more ecologically progressive than the United States is turning[/b]. Land of the free and home of the brave.[/QUOTE] Except they aren't really doing much except a few things that barely affect them as a government on occasion.
[QUOTE=matt000024;51608272]Except they aren't really doing much except a few things that barely affect them as a government on occasion.[/QUOTE] It's going to rebound the other way due to the increased trade from other countries when Trump starts cutting off America's lines to China. They'll become more progressive, at least externally, in environmental and social issues. The thing with China is that they'll do pretty much anything to cater to the foreign markets because they're aware of the value of external trade. They're just absolutely horrible to the people under their own rule because of some misguided belief of efficiency despite all cruelty. Societies like China are where the future is headed, by the way. When space concerns and scarcity become a rising tide, you're going to see the world start transform in the direction of China at its worst. Considering China already has [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chungking_Mansions]sci-fi style habitation blocks[/url] due to its space and population issues.. Reality is stranger than fiction. Reality is unrealistic. We're all going to die because of grey goo flouridization of the water supplies on Mars predicated by the Sectoid Lizardmen from Hangar 13. Mark my words.
[QUOTE=DOCTOR LIGHT;51608261]It's a sorry state of affairs when the technocratic dystopia that executes and harvests the organs of white-collar criminals and drug users [b]is becoming more ecologically progressive than the United States is turning[/b]. Land of the free and home of the brave.[/QUOTE] Is this sarcasm? It reads like sarcasm.
[QUOTE=Talishmar;51608292]Is this sarcasm? It reads like sarcasm.[/QUOTE] It's overly hyperbolic, but I can't help but feel like China's going to rebound to cater to the foreign markets. That, and I can't let DainBramageStudios win when he said that China's gonna fall before Trump leaves office. So I'll take whatever I can get. I don't even really like China or their policies, I just find that the fact we have a literal cyberpunk state extant on our planet wholly fascinating and baffling. People underrate just how fucking prophetic stuff like Neuromancer really was. All it's going to take is a technological singularity or a serious development boom for reality to be indistinguishable from fiction. Also, I have a high fever, so I'm a bit rambly. Sorry.
Good on them for doing something most countries did decades ago. This means nothing though because it has been very widely known and not hidden that their "existing stock" ivory trade has been horribly abused and outright filled with new illegally poached ivory and the government hasn't done anything meaningful about it. This will now just become another of many Chinese black markets instead of the grey market it's been since their "ban" on new ivory. The demand won't go away.
[QUOTE=EcksDee;51604441]Ima start learning mandarin and forgetting english[/QUOTE] Don't they normally know both :v:
[QUOTE=EcksDee;51604441]Ima start learning mandarin and forgetting english[/QUOTE] The Chinese are learning English, albeit as secondary, because Mandarin is inefficient for tech usage. Also, learn Cantonese because Hong Kong's where you'll wanna go to become part of the grinder.
good start there's still a long list of other things they need to get to banning asap... refer to ingredients used in traditional chinese medicine for that list
chinas sole goal (for the past 2200 years) has been to maintain the stability and integrity of Chinese civilization as a unitary state ecological problems obviously threaten this, so they are making moves to preserve and repair environmental damage now because they realise that its a problem that (in some capacity) threatens what i just described. if they had floods, crop failure, etc then the great mass of the chinese populace will believe that the communist party will have lost the mandate of heaven and china would consequently collapse into civil war
At one point in the near-future China will surpass the US in terms of environmental conciousness and awareness, that's a strange thought.
It wasn't already fucking illegal there? Even if they're doing it now, way to be way behind like always, China
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