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When a Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind -- Or Destroy It

Autor Jonathan Watts
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2010
As a young child, Jonathan Watts believed if everyone in China jumped at the same time, the earth would be shaken off its axis, annihilating mankind. Now, more than thirty years later, as a correspondent for "The Guardian "in Beijing, he has discovered it is not only foolish little boys who dread a planet-shaking leap by the world s most populous nation.
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When a Billion Chinese Jump "is a road journey into the future of our species. Traveling from the mountains of Tibet to the deserts of Inner Mongolia via the Silk Road, tiger farms, cancer villages, weather-modifying bases, and eco-cities, Watts chronicles the environmental impact of economic growth with a series of gripping stories from the country on the front line of global development. He talks to nomads and philosophers, entrepreneurs and scientists, rural farmers and urban consumers, examining how individuals are trying to adapt to one of the most spectacular bursts of change in human history, then poses a question that will affect all of our lives: Can China find a new way forward or is this giant nation doomed to magnify the mistakes that have already taken humanity to the brink of disaster?"
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ISBN-13: 9781416580768
ISBN-10: 141658076X
Pagini: 448
Dimensiuni: 153 x 228 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:Original.
Editura: Scribner

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The Asia environmental correspondent for the "Guardian" delivers a fascinating, frontline account of the current environmental crisis in China.

Notă biografică

Jonathan Watts is Global Environment Editor of the Guardian and the author of the eco-travelogue, When a Billion Chinese Jump. He has is an experienced, award-winning journalist who previously served as correspondent in Japan (1996-2003), China (2003-2012) and Brazil (2012-2017). He has written extensively on climate change, deforestation, pollution and the trade in environmental stress on travels that have taken him from the Amazon and Andes to the Gobi and Himalayas.