When a Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind - Or Destroy It.
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. This title portrays individual lives in a country all too often viewed from outside as a...
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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. This title portrays individual lives in a country all too often viewed from outside as a faceless state.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780571239825 (057123982X)
Publish date: April 1st 2011
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Pages no: 483
Edition language: English
Watts' evocative title is taken from his childhood prayer begging god to prevent the Earth being shaken from its axis by the force of the world's largest population landing in concert. His book offers no prospect of avoiding an equivalent catastrophe for the biosphere; 'China has jumped' he states, ...
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