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		<title>what climate change means for religion in china</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much intellectual discourse about Chinese philosophical and religious views of nature focuses on ideals such as harmony between humans and the natural world, or &#8220;forming one body with heaven and earth&#8221; (tian ren he yi). But when it comes to historical studies of Chinese environmental history, it&#8217;s hard to find instances of where this ideal was concretely realized. Mark Elvin concludes his monumental history of China&#8217;s environment with the following observation The religious, philosophical, literary, and historical texts surveyed and translated in the foregoing pages have been rich sources of description, insight, and even, perhaps, inspiration. But the dominant ideas and ideologies, which were often to some degree in contradiction with each other, appear to have little explanatory power in determining why what seems actually to have happened to the Chinese environment happened the way it did. Occasionally, yes, Buddhism helped to safeguard trees around monasteries. The law-enforced mystique shrouding Qing imperial tombs kept their surroundings untouched by more than minimal economic exploitation. but in general, no. There seems no case for thinking that, some details apart, the Chinese anthropogenic environment was developed and maintained in the way it was over the long run of more than three millennia because [...]]]></description>
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