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When a Billion Chinese Jump tells the story of China's - and the world's - biggest crisis. 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.
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"Fascinating, engaging and beautifully written. A masterpiece" --George Monbiot, author of Heat and The Age of Consent
"Spectacularly important...a shocking eyewitness account of China's environmental meltdown. It should be compulsory reading for all" --Rob Gifford, NPR Shanghai Correspondent, and author of China Road
"With wonderful travelogue-like writing, Watts takes us on an incredible journey through today's China-and our tomorrow" -- Lester R. Brown, President of Earth Policy Institute and author of Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
"An excellent read. A few good gags in it too, something few writers on China dare ever to try" --Paul French, author of Through the Looking Glass: Foreign Journalists in China from the Opium War to Mao
"I admire Jonathan Watts for his rigorous approach to journalism and his devotion to human stories at the grass roots" --Ma Jun, founder of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs and author of China's Water Crisis
"Fascinating, engaging and beautifully written. A masterpiece" -- George Monbiot, author of Heat and The Age of Consent
A wonderfully readable look at the crucially important topic of environmental degradation and experiments with green technology in China." --Jeffrey Wasserstrom, The China Beat
"With wonderful travelogue-like writing, Watts takes us on an incredible journey through today's China-and our tomorrow" --Lester R. Brown, President of Earth Policy Institute and author of Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
"Watts bundles the reader into his backpack and sets out.But this is far more than a series of adventure stories...Watts's book should be on the reading list of anyone anxious about the future of this planet" --Jane Macartney, The Times
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An essential and incisive discussion on China today - a country on an environmental precipice that will affect the entire world.
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- PublisherFaber and Faber
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0571239811
- ISBN 13 9780571239818
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages496
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