When a Billion Chinese Jump: Voices from the Frontline of Climate Change - Softcover

Watts, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 057123982X ISBN 13: 9780571239825

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2011

Synopsis

In When a Billion Chinese Jump, award-winning correspondent Jonathan Watts introduces us to the people caught up in the world's greatest environmental crisis. With filthy water, choking emissions and an unsustainable appetite for resources, China's development has pushed our planet to its limits. Travelling from mountain paradise to blasted desert, through eco-cities, shopping malls and cancer villages, Watts hears from the people involved in every aspect of the crisis, from tiger farmers, illegal miners and a Shanghai cosmetics maven to the engineers, artists and activists trying to prevent catastrophe.

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Review:

'Watts unveils the human realities behind the statistics.' --Nick Rennison, Sunday Times

'Not simply an indictment of China's development path: it is a lesson for us all in the dangers of how we live.' --Isabel Hilton, Guardian

'Fascinating, engaging and beautifully written ... A masterpiece.' --George Monbiot

Book Description:

Full of astonishing personal stories, When a Billion Chinese Jump: Voices from the Frontline of Climate Change by Jonathan Watts is an essential and incisive discussion on China today - a country on an environmental precipice that will affect the entire world - and a compelling look at the lives of its people.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 057123982X
• ISBN 13: 9780571239825
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512