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| parentItem | The Hard Truth About Cashmere.pdf |
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| dateModified | 2022-07-22T07:35:20Z |
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| annotationPageLabel | 2-3 |
| version | 3087 |
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| dateAdded | 2022-07-22T07:34:28Z |
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| annotationText | After the collapse of the communist Mongolian People’s Republic in 1990, Mongolia abandoned the quota system that previously governed the number of animals permitted to graze on its lands. Since then, its grazing livestock population has jumped from 20 million to 61.5 million. Goats now account for more than half of all livestock, which has proven environmentally disastrous: Goats eat the roots and flowers needed to seed new grasses, so when a herd uproots a pasture, what grows back is sparser and often poisonous (inedible plants generally replace native grasses). Unmoored soil is swept up into dust storms, reaching as far south as Beijing and Hong Kong. |
| annotationAuthorName | Ananda Thrift |