The players in the game of Change from this area of western China lost in the game of Change. This was their prize. A landscape that has been denuded of natural vegetation, degraded in its capacity for sustainable production and severely impoverished in the abundance and diversity of living species other than those favoured by humans. It is a sad place. People do not live here. They exist! The descendants of those who gambled and lost in the game of Change now face the enormous, soul destroying task of rehabilitating a degraded arid landscape. They will never be able to undo the damage that was done. The Loser's Prize is theirs forever!