Ming Jun snaps some dusty twigs and drags them indoors to cook lunch for his daughter and heat his mud brick home. The Chinese farmer is down to his last pile of firewood, and he can’t afford any more. It’s just ahead of the Lunar New Year, but Ming says he feels no holiday cheer. “Other families buy their kids meat to eat and new clothes to wear. My daughter wears old, donated clothes,” he
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