This picture was taken from the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. I know I should have been focusing more on the ancient kings' sacrificial ways to the heavens, but I got distracted when I saw five cranes from this one point inside the Temple of Heaven.
The thought that came back to mind was how China has been rapidly growing and building these past couple years. I learned in my Crisis of a Planet class at USC that this rapid growth is seriously straining the world's natural resources and it's burdening the rest of the world. China's rapid construction and building efforts are burning through natural resources faster than the world can compensate. And that's why our world is in a crisis (well, amongst other things). China is developing at such a fast rate, it's polluting the air immensely, making its river systems undrinkable, and making its lands sustainable.
China is so focused on its economic development, working its way into the global trade world, and scaling capitalism that it's lost focus on everything else - social problems, the environment, etc. It's letting its capitalistic desires take over every other part of its infrastructure because it so desparately wants to be included in the group of elite countries.
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