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When a Billion Chinese Jump: Voices from the Frontline of Climate Change
Jonathan Watts
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Description for When a Billion Chinese Jump: Voices from the Frontline of Climate Change
Paperback. 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. This title portrays individual lives in a country all too often viewed from outside as a faceless state. Num Pages: 496 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; RNC; RNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 33. Weight in Grams: 380.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571239825
SKU
V9780571239825
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Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-5
About Jonathan Watts
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 ... Read more
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