When a billion Chinese jump : how China will save mankind--or destroy it /
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 superpo...
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Table of 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 .