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Forums > Living in Kunming > Disposable chopsticks bad for nature

...that is collectively owned by the cyclists and that refuse to deliver from restaurants that provide throw away chopsticks, and who will not use elevators.
Man, there's GENIUS on this thread today!

(Confession: I think I ate off paper plates last night at the highly-successful Have a Heart fundraiser. However, I walked home afterwards....but then I bought some bananas on the way home and as I had been too thoughtless to carry my own bag, I accepted the plastic bag into which the hawker put the bananas, and I already have way too many plastic bags in my flat...damn!)

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Disposable chopsticks bad for nature

@Dazzer: another good idea. But then of course you can stop having food delivered, so that the delivery vehicle is not out there burning petrocarbons, and walk to the nearest noodle shop that does not use throw away chopsticks (take the stairs, it's healthier and you don't waste electric power, run perhaps on coal or forest-destroying people-moving dam sites, in the elevator).
Very difficult to keep clean hands - opportunities for political correctness are inexhaustible, all good - there's no end to tactics of Resistance, although I do think some may be more effective than others.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Disposable chopsticks bad for nature

Misfit: Good point. But note also that the entire ideal of democracy rests on the idea that electrons count up too. 'One' is always outnumbered by 'many', and there is an obvious lesson to be learned from the fact. But electrons are useless unless they are informed - so thanks for the post, dolphin, for what it is worth, and for as far as it goes.
Methinks, however, that there is more to do and to consider, as everything is inextricably, and often irresponsibly, connected to everything else.

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Forums > Food & Drink > Hotel buffet in Kunming

(1) No.
(2) As you like.
(4) I seem to be buried in imperfections. Anyway, I rather distrust people who have nothing but principles and imagine life is just a matter of living up to them. People like that can be scary.
Guess I'll go to Hell, ho-hum.

The hotel buffets - I'll continue to talk to you, understanding that I, too, am a great sinner, if you go there.

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Forums > Food & Drink > Hotel buffet in Kunming

(1) The organized mass influence on government, both globally and within the country. Large organizations can oppress largely.
(2) Yes.
(3) Depends largely on the way in which wealth is distributed, I think, both globally and within the country.
(4) I can't.

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Note practical functional adaptation to forest regrowth and re-use of land for agriculture practiced by slash-&-burn (swidden) mountain groups before their territories were restricted, which required re-use of same land in much shorter periods - and they knew, through their cultural history, that this wouldn't work, and said so - but of course the explosion of the human population made continuation of these traditional long-period of regrowth practices impossible. Now they are blamed for being ignorant and ruining mountain slopes (in China, Thailand, many places).
Fact is, there are simply too many people.

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The Curmudgeon says: Maybe the Western dam experts criticisms of just about every dam in Asia are right.
In vis-a-vis arguments concerning fossil-based, nuclear and hydroelectric sources of energy, perhaps the shining truth behind them all is simply that this particular species of animal consumes too much damn energy for the good of the planet, including that of our particular species. Perhaps solar, tidal, etc. development will prove me wrong. In the meantime, walk, get a bicycle or ride the bus. Healthier and less socially divisive too.

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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.

As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.

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Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.

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Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.