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

from TomWaitsTables

Great title (though the subtitle is superfluous) with an even greater subject: the carbon-fueled industrialization of the developing world, of which China is only the harbinger.

from TomWaitsTables

Great title (though the subtitle is superfluous) with an even greater subject: the carbon-fueled industrialization of the developing world, of which China is only the harbinger.

from michdubb

This book, which is full of detail and insight, is written in a really engagning and personal way. An enjoyable and thought-provoking read.

from altonmann

A truly remarkably inventory of environmental jeopardy in today's China. Similar to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in its alarming description of what has already been lost or is seriously threatened as Watts (who covers China and environmental issues for the Manchester Guardian) takes us on a tou...

from andersondotau

Sort of backed up what I knew in a general sense. Contained many details about the terrible damage to the environment and animals numbers that happened during the great leap forward, and the large scale development and pollution that has gone on over the last 20 years. I get a sense that things a...