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Mountains Are Green in China

February 15, 2007 at 9:45 AM | 0 Comments

How long does it take to paint a rocky mountain face green? Well, if you've got seven workers, about 45 days. That's the discovery of Chinese officials who decided that the best solution to the deforestation of Laoshou mountain--a result of quarrying--was simply to paint it green. After all, office workers at a new government building nearby have to look at it all day.

Plenty of people are unhappy about it: from those who say the feng shui of the area's been destroyed, to others who have calculated that the $60,000 spent on painting could have actually planted trees and bushes over a much wider area. But others think that green paint is "the new green": who needs to save the environment when you can just make it look the right color? Perhaps tourists will soon see a bright green Great Wall of China, just to make sure it'll still be visible from space even through all our pollution.

[Photo: velo city]

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