05
06
2008
Buy Chinese Antiques, Ignore China’s Olympics and Modern Products
Posted by: DerekDashwood in EnvironmentChinese antiques were so vastly superior to the more clumsy artifacts that Marco Polo brought to the Great Khan in China. Marco and his father and uncle traversed China, although he never mentions the Great Wall, so we know most of his time was spent in the more idyllic south with its canals and tropical abundance. There were small foundries making early iron into steel with coal, and they did have fireworks, and this knowledge followed in the minds, as much as diamonds and Chinese delicate antiques, not bags of coal. But Dragon Coal has taken over, and his unfiltered smoke stacks are killing us now. Is there anything we can do?

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