Zhuangzi, 11–12, 257, 304
Zipingpu Dam, 43–44, 45, 47, 48, 60–61
Zou Xiaoping, 121
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“This is the book on China and climate change that the West has been waiting for. Watts uses his long experience of China to track the country’s environmental calamity up close, uncovering its causes, its contradictions and its shocking human toll. Then he poses perhaps the most seminal question of all—can it save itself and, by extension, the planet?”
“The world’s chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change rests in large part with decisions being made today in Beijing. If China raises its standard of living to Western standards without controlling the emissions from industry and power plants, it will wreak havoc with the world’s climate—with unforeseeable and irreversible consequences. If it takes the road now opening up to a low-carbon economy and leads the world in developing and deploying clean energy technologies, it can show the way to a sustainable future for the planet. Jonathan Watts turns a keen eye on China’s choices—previously made and yet to come—that will affect us all.”
“Jonathan Watts brings us up to date on China’s economic miracle and the environmental consequences not only for China but for the entire world. With wonderful travelogue-like writing, Watts takes us on an incredible journey through today’s China—and our tomorrow.”
“This is the environmental book that I am most looking forward to for 2010. I admire Jonathan Watts for his rigorous approach to journalism and his devotion to human stories at the grass roots.”
“A fascinating, engaging, and beautifully written book. Jonathan Watts shines a light onto an issue that affects us all but of which we are woefully ignorant. This book succeeds in both informing and entertaining us. It is a masterpiece.”
“This is a spectacularly important book, superbly researched and engagingly written. Jonathan Watts has given us a shocking eyewitness account of China’s environmental meltdown. It should be compulsory reading for all.”
“Watts has written a nationwide audit of where China’s environment stands as of the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century. His eyewitness accounts are the great strength of this important book.”
“An excellent read. A few good gags in it, too, something few writers on China dare ever to try.”
“Meticulously documented, wide-ranging account … this is a revealing and depressing book. There is no ‘middle truth’ in it. During his painstaking investigative journeys, which called on all his powers as a top-class reporter, Jonathan Watts concluded that ‘China has felt at times like the end of the world.’”
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