South Africa's Rhino population is being slaughtered at an unprecedented rate. Using a baseline starting in 2000 and extending to 2007, a total of 117 Rhinos were killed for their horn during that period. Rhino horn brings app $37,000 per pound in the black market.. Asian peoples in China, Thailand, Korea, Hong Kong think it helps with sex and health issues. Starting in 2008 and extending through six months of 2013, a total of 2168 Rhinos have been killed in South Africa. Why the increase? It must be tied to wealth. Considering the pricey Rhino horn, money is the effective tool for this kind of horror. Starting in 2008 world central banks opened the floodgates on heretofore "normal" money creation. In the view of central bankers and their governments ,an increase of money in circulation plus easier credit was needed to restart Western economies. This was was a boon to Asian emerging countries economies. Money flooded into those countries and made instant multi-billionaires in a very short period.
With all that money, the primative ids of the Asians reached out for ancient status trophies -Rhino horn dagger handles and presumed aphrodisiac brews and health prescriptions. In the beginning we lived on a planet that looked largely like present day Africa. Now the planet is looking more like filthy China.Boycott Asia.
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