We think too much and feel too little

climateadaptation:

Unimaginable horror as helicopter-borne poachers massacre 22 elephants before hacking off their tusks and genitals
“In a scene of inconceivable horror, these slaughtered elephant carcasses show the barbaric lengths poachers will go to in their hunt for nature’s grim booty.
The bodies were among a herd of 22 animals massacred in a helicopter-borne attack by professionals who swooped over their quarry.”
The scene beneath the rotor blades would have been chilling - panicked mothers shielding their young, hair-raising screeches and a mad scramble through the blood-stained bush as bullets rained down from the sky.
When the shooting was over, all of the herd lay dead, one of the worst such killings in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo in living memory.
‘It’s been a long time since we’ve seen something like this,’ said Dr Tshibasu Muamba, head of international cooperation for the Congolese state conservation agency, ICCN, as he surveyed the macarbre scene at Garamba National Park.”
via the Daily Mail

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[…] the American and Chinese education systems share one common, defining characteristic: They are both plagued by gross inequalities and rampant segregation. In the United States, these injustices fall largely along racial and class lines: poor, minority students are more likely to attend highly segregated schools; their schools are more likely to suffer from a lack of resources; and their teachers are more likely to be inexperienced.

Hechinger Report | What the U.S. and Chinese school systems have in common: Inequality, segregation (via teachersworldwide)

Butrymowicz notes that these disparities tainted China’s recent domineering performance on international assessments in reading, math and science because many public schools do not admit migrant students. When Shanghai 15-year-olds outperformed the rest of the world in 2010, observers wondered if their success stemmed at least in part from exclusionary, segregationist practices. After I told a friend of mine who grew up in China about the international rankings, he quipped that public-school students in Shanghai are comparable to private-school students on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in terms of their wealth and privilege. Shaking his head, he noted that no one would take Dalton or Brearley—two of the Big Apple’s most elite private schools—as representative of the whole United States.

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Free Tibet by Chris Wieland on Flickr.

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atlanticinfocus:

From World Water Day, one of 36 photos. Here, a journalist takes a sample of polluted red-colored water in the Jianhe River in Luoyang, Henan province, China, on December 13, 2011. According to local media, the sources of the pollution were two illegal chemical plants discharging their production waste water into the rain sewer pipes. (Reuters/China Daily)

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─ Huge protest in Tibet after farmer's death ─

caraobrien:

Thousands of Tibetans gathered at the weekend to mourn a farmer who burned himself to death to protest Chinese rule in Tibet, bringing to about 30 the number in a wave of self-immolations in the Himalayan region.

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─ Two Tibetan Women Die After Self-Immolation ─

toddcamack:

The deaths bring to at least 24 the number of Tibetans who have set fire to themselves in western China since March 2011, and at least 16 of those have died.

Read more. From the New York Times.

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reuters:

Apple’s top manufacturer in China, Foxconn Technology, is having no problems luring new workers to churn out an array of Apple gadgets, despite the firm’s reputation as a tough employer amidst a thorough probe into its labor practices.
This graphic shows the different Foxconn locations throughout China. It also shows the change in number of employees & revenue since 2006.

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