When a Billion Chinese Jump

Voices from the Frontline of Climate Change

AvJonathan Watts

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-04-01
Mått:125 x 195 x 27 mm
Vikt:425 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:512
Förlag:Faber & Faber
ISBN:9780571239825

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Miljövetenskap och miljöpolitik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

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Jonathan Watts is the Guardian's Asia environment correspondent and recently covered the Copenhagen Climate Conference. He was short-listed for Foreign Correspondent of the Year at the 2006 British Press Awards, and he and his research assistant were awarded the One World Media Award for best press story in 2007. In 2009, he was a co-winner of the environment prize at the One World Media Awards for a series on the global food crisis.