The Heavy Price Of "World First" - "Cashmere Sweaters Eat The Prairie"

Kiki closed the notebook computer, turned off the desk lamp, sat in the darkness, did not move, and felt a wave of sadness.

A group of photos I just saw shocked Qi Qi: wearing a variety of colors.

This group of photographs is the author, a retired veteran worker named Lu Tongjing, who spent 10 years shooting in the field. The old man concluded that "the cashmere sweater ate the prairie".

The heavy cost of "the world's first"

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However, the price of the world's first "crest" of cashmere production is the rapid acceleration of grassland desertification.

According to Lu Tongjing's investigation, one of the main causes of grassland degradation is cashmere production.

It is understood that in the world, Europe, America, Australia and Africa, as well as Japan and South Korea in Asia, do not breed goats on large scale. Only China is still breeding large numbers of goats.

In the past, there was no special feeding on goats in China. Until 1985, the goats began to multiply. At that time, the government called on everyone to change sheep into goats.

In a pastoral area where only 200 thousand animals can be held, 1 million 600 thousand animals eat grass, and 80% are goats who eat grass roots.

The ten years after 1990 were the most serious ten years of rapid deterioration of grassland ecology. The reason is the rise of cashmere producers. This industry has become a pillar industry in Inner Mongolia.

However, the rapid expansion of cashmere plants did not bring happiness to herdsmen.

In the 80s of last century, the cashmere of herdsmen could be sold to 280 yuan a kilogram, and the price now is even the original 1/4.

Over the past few years, the consumption of cashmere has been increasing, which has led to an increase in cashmere goat breeding and a vicious circle. The more goats are raised, the lower the price of cashmere, and the greater damage to the pasture environment.

Such a vicious cycle, herdsmen's life has not fundamentally improved, the steppe gradually disappeared, the desert continues to expand.

The life of a Tibetan antelope.

Human cashmere claims are not only targeted at goats, but also our country's key protected animals, Tibetan antelope! There is such a shawl: 2 meters long and 1 meters wide, but only 100 grams. The high degree of warmth can allow dove eggs to hatch little dove. This cashmere shawl is called the "Shashi King" sand shawl shawl, which is a luxury item in the European and American markets for tens of thousands of dollars. However, each of these shawls is covered with three antelope's blood.

In the early twentieth Century, there were more than 1 million Tibetan antelopes in China, but the current number is less than 75 thousand, and it is still decreasing at the rate of tens of thousands per year, and has reached the edge of extinction.

The reason is organized hunting and smuggling.

In 1997, only a patrol of the Western Work Committee of the western part of Qinghai province captured thousands of Tibetan antelope skins. In July 2001, only half a day later, more than 700 pieces of Tibetan antelope were seized.

In the world's only Kashmir weaving Satus, the families that monopolize the production and trade of Satus have been fabricating lies. They say that Tibetan antelope is collected by the herdsmen from the trees and the stone crevice during the changing season.

Scientists in Italy say that the only way to get the sand is to kill the Tibetan antelope.

Not wearing cashmere to save grassland {page_break}

Do humans have to wear cashmere clothing? The answer to this question is negative.

With the development of science and technology, the characteristics of cashmere clothing, such as warmth, beauty and comfort, can be achieved through other means.

Cashmere products are made from cashmere goats, which can produce only 50 to 80 grams per year, and no wool. Generally, one ordinary cashmere sweater needs 5 cashmere production a year.

If you can buy a cashmere sweater less, you can help the grasslands save 5 rations a year.

At present, the quality cost of a cashmere sweater in the market is at least 400 yuan, while the price of a seedling is only 100-150 yuan.

Buying less a cashmere sweater means planting at least two sand prevention trees and improving grassland ecology.

Reflecting on our lives, the pursuit of material has gone too far. People in the city have plenty of idle clothes every year, but they are still buying.

Therefore, "do not wear or wear less cashmere, protect grasslands" should become an environmental protection concept.

Pursuing a simpler way of life should also be a responsibility.

Chen Peisi, a movie star, never wears cashmere sweaters. His reason is to protect vegetation and environment.

However, we should also see that the world is pluralistic, and cashmere consumption will not disappear in the short term. Therefore, cashmere industry will also exist for quite a long time.

How to develop cashmere industry under the general direction of protecting the environment? First, we should publicize the real situation between cashmere and the environment in a wide range of ways, and guide consumers to cherish cashmere resources, not over consume and not conspicuous consumption; second, measures should be taken to avoid vicious competition in the competition to protect the interests of herdsmen; third, the state should fully consider the negative effects of cashmere on the ecosystem, restrict the raising of goats, and raise the price of cashmere, so that cashmere can become the real "soft gold" in raw materials, making cashmere garments a luxury, and ultimately achieving a balance between the development industry and the protection of the environment.