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

By Jonathan Watts

Book information

Publisher
Scribner
Year
2010
ISBN
141658076X, 9781416580768
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
1 MB (1293656 bytes)
Edition
Original
Pages
1846\0
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

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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