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When a Billion Chinese Jump: Voices from the Frontline of Climate Change (Paperback)
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Short Description for When a Billion Chinese JumpWith foul air, filthy water, rising temperatures and encroaching deserts, China is already suffering an environmental disaster. Now it faces a stark choice: either accept catastrophe, or make radical changes. This title portrays individual lives in a country all too often viewed from outside as a faceless state.
Full description- Publisher: Faber and Faber
- Published: 01 April 2011
- Format: Paperback 496 pages
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- Categories: Central Government Policies | Applied Ecology | Pollution & Threats To The Environment | Environmental Science, Engineering & Technology
- ISBN 13: 9780571239825 ISBN 10: 057123982X
- Sales rank: 39,867
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Full description for When a Billion Chinese Jump
With foul air, filthy water, rising temperatures and encroaching deserts, China is already suffering an environmental disaster. Now it faces a stark choice: either accept catastrophe, or make radical changes. Traveling the vast country to witness this environmental challenge, Jonathan Watts moves from mountain paradises to industrial wastelands, examining the responses of those at the top of society to the problems and hopes of those below. At heart his book is not a call for panic, but a demonstration that - even with the crisis so severe, and the political scope so limited - the actions of individuals can make a difference. Consistently attentive to human detail, Watts vividly portrays individual lives in a country all too often viewed from outside as a faceless state. No reader of his book - no consumer in the world - can be unaffected by what he presents.
