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When a billion Chinese jump : how China will save mankind--or destroy it
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Title
When a billion Chinese jump : how China will save mankind--or destroy it / Jonathan Watts.
ISBN
9781416580768 (pbk.) :
141658076X (pbk.) :
Published
New York : Scribner, 2010.
Physical Description
xii, 435 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Summary
The Asia environmental correspondent for the "Guardian" delivers a fascinating, frontline account of the current environmental crisis in China, exploring how Beijing is balancing economic growth with sustainability and whether China will "emerge as the world's first green superpower" or tip our species "over the environmental precipice."
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 07, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Useless trees : Shangri-La
Foolish old men : the Tibetan Plateau
Still waters, moving earth : Sichuan
Fishing with explosives : Hubei and Guangxi
Made in China? : Guangdong
Gross domestic pollution : Jiangsu and Zhejiang
From horizontal green to vertical gray : Chongqing
Shop till you drop : Shanghai
Why do so many people hate Henan? : Henan
The carbon trap : Shanxi and Shaanxi
Attack the clouds! Retreat from the sands! : Gansu and Ningxia
Flaming mountain, melting heaven : Xinjing
Science versus math : Tianjin, Hebei, and Liaoning
Fertility treatment : Shandong
An odd sort of dictatorship : Heilongjiang
Grass roots : Xanadu .
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