The independent journalist Lingu said to Jeff and I on Reel 19 at 26:48, “If you’re part of it, you should learn how to be a good part.” Lingu goes on to talk about the Olympics as a great educational opportunity to introduce the idea of “green” into the Chinese mindset.

These are great thoughts. It’s such a nice thing to think about being a good part of something if you’re going to be part of it at all. This is making me weep. It is a thought that connects environmental education to the wholistic, systemic Eastern way of thinking about things. This connects the Taoist and Confucian history at the beginnings of environmentalism in China to the reemergence of environmentalism that is happening currently in China. It connects these elements through the era in the mid-1900s, when Mao took China for a bit, and the West formed an idea about what China is that, largely, continues today, although China has changed and will continue to change.