Resettling China’s ‘Ecological Migrants’
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/25/world/asia/china-climate-change-resettlement.html?ref=world
NY Times
October 25, 2016
"The “lake” part of Miaomiao Lake Village turned out to be nothing but a tiny oasis more than a mile from the cookie-cutter rows of small concrete-block houses."
"Instead, these people who once herded sheep and goats over expansive hills now feel like penned-in animals, listless and uncertain of their future."
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I really love the way the author is able to capture the way that many people of the Miaomiao Lake Village were deceived, by explaining the "lake" as a tiny oasis surrounded by "cookie-cutter rows of small concrete-block houses." This lucid description of the environment in witch these people live, paints a picture that almost everyone can imagine. The author is making something ordinary such as an over populated town, something extraordinary by using vivid descriptions. the second quote is similar to the first in that it exemplifies the way the citizens were deceived, and their roles of living free and herding animals switched resulting in them being herded into an unwanted way of living.
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