It has nothing to do with human activities, you said, the vanished Black River, the Yellow River turned into sewage, the Yangtze on its way to become a second Yellow River - nothing to do with mankind. Don't give me that smirk, you said. This is backed up by the Japanese scientists who study glaciers. I spent a year traveling with them in the desert where the Black River used to roar along the Silk Route. They begged me to help them prove that the desert, once a fecund wetland, has nothing to do with warring or over grazing. Don't ask why. I'm just a Tibetan Buddhist sutra translator. I know nothing about the global warming. I did learn from this trip that flood, drought, wars - whatever recorded in ancient documents - can be found in the fossils, and none of them has anything to do with us. READ MORE...

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