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On Flow and Water

Animal Person

I did know that such companies steal water (and oil) from local people in other countries, promising them improved access or health or housing, and I did know of the very, very dark side of dams (particularly the Three Gorges Dam in China, with its environmental ravaging and displacing of over a million people). Drink Tap Water!

China 100
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Birding the Wolongshan area in June 2023

10,000 Birds

is based on a study of specimens and tape recordings collected during one visit to each of two localities in central China in 1997 and 1998 and their own tape recordings and specimens from Nepal; in all, 196 specimens were examined. In contrast, the paper by Martens et al. Meaning: we did real science, Martens did not.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

Of course, when hamburgers aren't at stake, most of us think that it would be morally wrong to kill an animal for no good reason. Colin Campbell of Cornell University is the director of the Cornell/Oxford/China Study, the largest epidemiological study ever conducted.