The Federalist Papers
If you plan on watching the Winter Olympics in Beijing starting on Feb. 4, just realize all those ski slopes you’re seeing are covered in totally fake snow — and the Chinese government put the water supply 1.4 million people rely on at risk to get it done.
According to Bloomberg, the fake snow is straining the water supply of Zhangjiakou, one of the main sites of the 2022 Games. Furthermore, China has built up the site as their “version of the Alps, creating an upscale winter holiday destination in the hopes of lifting an agricultural region out of poverty.”
Which doesn’t explain where they’ll be able to drink once they’re lifted out of poverty, but such is life in Winnie the Pooh’s Hundred-Acre Communist Wood.
