Elvin, Chapter 2
First off, I have to say that I love the title. It sounds hugely important and very fancy. Indeed, the subject of the chapter is interesting. It's a pity the writing is a bit dry and circumspect.
Elephants are hardly the only animal to suffer through generations of farmers struggling against nature, trying to find some sort of balance that allows them to eat. Unfortunately, the events related in this chapter were hardly about balance; it was all about surviving. The Chinese farmers didn't care if the Elephants went extinct; they merely cared if their crops would survive or not.
It's not that the individual's attitude today is all that different, but there are a lot more conservationist groups that would get in the way.
Elephants are hardly the only animal to suffer through generations of farmers struggling against nature, trying to find some sort of balance that allows them to eat. Unfortunately, the events related in this chapter were hardly about balance; it was all about surviving. The Chinese farmers didn't care if the Elephants went extinct; they merely cared if their crops would survive or not.
It's not that the individual's attitude today is all that different, but there are a lot more conservationist groups that would get in the way.
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