ClimateChange & Tourism – Can David & Goliath Ever Be Friends & Cultivate Each Other?

We can learn from Red China about restoring Green Landscapes for the sake of attracting more Tourists and at the same time advancing the interests of our own Tribes in the matter of resources both natural and financial! I mean, we should learn how to deal with Climate Change in order to be able to deal with Primate Change – we have to teach our own people how to conserve the natural resources for their own sake.

Here is a friendly individual and/or amiable agency we can learn from and be assured of assistance. ANN says, “Science And Tradition Drive China-Wide Effort To Restore Landscapes” (16 Feb 2023, Author Not Named, UNEP, unep.org):

Ahead of Global Tourism Resilience Day on 17 February, which promotes sustainable tourism for poverty eradication and environmental protection, we take a look at a large-scale, award-winning initiative in China to restore ecosystems from mountains to coastal estuaries across the country.

In those 41 words above, I find my 2 favorite dreamwishes: “poverty eradication” and “environmental protection.” More precisely, I have been writing about how to solve Farmer Poverty and resolve Climate Change.

Now, that country has the “Great Walls of China” as one of the 7^th Wonders of the World – while my country claims the “Banaue Rice Terraces” as the “8^th Wonder of the World” (tripadvisor.com.ph). Sylva says, “I have to say it truly is a magical place, so amazing, and utterly beautiful.”

But because of Climate Change, I do not wonder that all those 8 wonders of the world, and more, are disappearing before our eyes! We now need Christian Science and an uncommon Creative Sense to restore our natural resources – and excite our own wonder!

ANN says the Chinese are busy restoring their village’s beauty and goodness:

Armed with billhooks, hammers and their bare hands, villagers in China's eastern Yunhe County are methodically clearing a series of abandoned hillside rice fields, many perched dramatically over a yawning valley. These terraced paddies had long ago fell into disuse, a product of a strained rural economy. But villagers are aiming to make the land productive again by weeding out invasive plants and building walls to prevent soil erosion.

China’s “abandoned hillside rice fields” and the Philippines’ “abandoned hillside rice terraces” – are suffering the same fate using the same artificial means of maintaining and/or returning the fertility of the soil: “Chemical Agriculture” (CA). Whether you are a farmer in Chongqing or Cavite, your CA is destructive of the natural wealth of the soil, as well as the natural balance of plant and animal lives – all of which disturbs the climate adversely:

What we do comes back to us!

“[The Chinese] villagers are aiming to make the land productive again by weeding out invasive plants and building walls to prevent soil erosion.”

Not enough! This Filipino agriculturist – UP Los Baños alumnus, Ag Edu 1965 – can teach Chinese farmers what I learned from American gentleman farmer Edward H Faulkner – the basics of organic agriculture (OA). OA defeats farmer poverty and Climate Change simultaneously!@517