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Devouring Dragon : How China's Rise Threatens the Natural World.
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Wellington : Awa Press, 2013.
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9781877551963
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1 online resource (366 pages)
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For this brilliant book, author Craig Simons visited many of the places and spoke to many of the people impacted by China's explosive economic growth and voracious appetite for resources. From New Guinea, where great forests are being felled and rare birds threatened to meet China's demand for timber; through Brazil, where large swaths of the Amazon are being cleared to plant soybeans for China, and India, where poachers are hunting and killing tigers and other endangered animals to extinction to feed Chinese demand; to Australia, where the countryside is being polluted by mines that supply coal to China, this study paints a devastating portrait of the many communities being ravaged to satisfy Chinese consumption. The Devouring Dragon looks at how an ascending China has rapidly surpassed the United States and Europe as the worst-polluting superpower and asks questions that demand urgent answers if the environment is to survive.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Simons, C. (2013). Devouring Dragon: How China's Rise Threatens the Natural World . Awa Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Simons, Craig. 2013. Devouring Dragon: How China's Rise Threatens the Natural World. Awa Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Simons, Craig. Devouring Dragon: How China's Rise Threatens the Natural World Awa Press, 2013.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Simons, Craig. Devouring Dragon: How China's Rise Threatens the Natural World Awa Press, 2013.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro -- Author's Note -- Prologue -- Part I: China's Baseline -- The Yangtze -- Baselines -- The Three Gorges Dam -- Part II: Life on the Brink -- Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright -- The Sixth Great Extinction -- Corbett National Park -- Part III: Our Shrinking Forests -- A Forest Laid Flat -- New Guinea -- Our Future Forests -- Part IV: Our Warming Skies -- Time Travel -- Hopenhagen -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright. | |
| 520 | |a For this brilliant book, author Craig Simons visited many of the places and spoke to many of the people impacted by China's explosive economic growth and voracious appetite for resources. From New Guinea, where great forests are being felled and rare birds threatened to meet China's demand for timber; through Brazil, where large swaths of the Amazon are being cleared to plant soybeans for China, and India, where poachers are hunting and killing tigers and other endangered animals to extinction to feed Chinese demand; to Australia, where the countryside is being polluted by mines that supply coal to China, this study paints a devastating portrait of the many communities being ravaged to satisfy Chinese consumption. The Devouring Dragon looks at how an ascending China has rapidly surpassed the United States and Europe as the worst-polluting superpower and asks questions that demand urgent answers if the environment is to survive. | ||
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