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Miss Wu Cai Mei is a business woman from An Huei, Huai Ling, China. She has a high school education only and once owned a garment factory. In 2005, she bought a coal mine which gave her half a million Yuan annually. However, water and dust from the mine pollute that area seriously and the vegetation in the area was decimated.

Every morning when she wakes up she compares her coal mine with the green hill from afar, feeling guilty. She realized that digging coal was not the right way to mak emoney. It is just like killing hen to take eggs. She decided to close down her coal-mine. A few people tried to buy the business from her she rejected them.Her letter to the localgovernment said : let us give the earth a break and do something to protect our environment.

At about the same time, the government allow private citizen to develop the mountains in that area. She signed a forty years contract with the government and sign nother 70 years contract with local people. All together she got 3000 acres land that cost 300 Yuen for each acres. She got advises from professional consultants to set up plan for her farm. She planted flowers, herbs, vegetable , delicious fruit and good quality timbers. She raised organic chickens, pigs and put down thousands of small fish in the water reservoir.

Roads are built all the way up to the mountains. Two years later, the trees alone bring in one million Yuan profit for her. Tourists from the city pick fresh fruits and vegetables in her farm which also give her another good income. She recycles waste material from her farm to produce marsh gas and supply that to the public free of charge. Altogether she created 80 jobs in the area.

She said if she continue to dig the mine, after three years the coal would all gone and the mountain would be destroyed. She believed the smarter way is living with our earth but not taking from the earth. She spent all together 5 million Yuan to build up her farm. Her next project is to repair all the ancient temples in the mountain. She appreciated how our ancestors saved resource for us and her goal is to maintain a nice environment for our descendents.

Let us see what we are doing in the United States. Being mislead by our business men, economists and politicians, all we care is to maintain high GDP. Things make me worry the most is the ways that we produce meat, egg and milk. We put hormone into animals and fertilizer to plants to enhance growth. These chemicals accumulate in our body and change our body structure. A statistic showing that in the United State, 12% of our girls are premature at 7-8 years old. Our men’s sperm are less than the standard rate. Public have no choice but eat things with chemical. Seeking high profit let our government totally ignore its people’s health.

Actually we do not need to eat that much but to eat healthy. We should accept what the natural give us instead of interfering the growth of animals and plants. I once made comment in Paul Krugman’s blog. When he mentioned the growth of GDP, I told him that we should care about the things that grow on the land more. From generation to generation land provide all mankind the needs for surviving. Land provides grain that feed human and animals. Animals then provide us with egg, milk and meat.

Land provides timber that make shelters. Land growth cotton that make clothe. Why I mention this here. If we following the footsteps of our ancestors we do not have to panic if one day our banks collapsed and make us lost our money or jobs. All government needs to do is to help people to get what we need from land. People can built shelters and plant in the farm. We can use marsh gas or sonar as energy. Life there will be different from ancient time because we have internet and, TV that report news in the world. We can work during the day and have party or play poker at night. That will be another kind of life experience for us. We can make friends or even meet our soul mate there. We can learn how to cook nice food with organic raw material. We will have food for both our physical and spiritual well being. We can also see sunrise and sunset and the moon rises

in fresh air. …Isn’t that nice?