This is what’s on the other side of that freeway construction. Some of the last farmland around. According to China’s own estimates, arable land is being lost at such a fast rate that this year, for the first time, the country will no longer be able to feed itself. Most likely, the country is well beyond that point already, since much of the arable last is too polluted to be useable. I wonder how life in the West is going to change as China rushes toward becoming a nation of consumers rather than producers.
