Craig simons patrick runnels catharina (1 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 289 pages. cover worn China's rise is assaulting the natural world at an alarming rate. In a few sh ort years, China has become the planet's largest market for endangered wildlife, its top importer of tropical trees, and its biggest emitter of greenhouse gases . Its rapid economic growth has driven up the world's very metabolism: in Brazil , farmers clear large swaths of the Amazon to plant soybeans; Indian poachers hu nt tigers and elephants to feed Chinese demand; in the United States, clouds of mercury and ozone drift earthward after trans-Pacific jet-stream journeys. Craig Simons' The Devouring Dragon looks at how an ascending China has rapidly surpas sed the U.S. and Europe as the planet's worst-polluting superpower. It argues th at China's most important 21st-century legacy will be determined not by jobs, co rporate profits, or political alliances, but by how quickly its growth degrades the global environment and whether it can stem the damage. Combining in-depth re porting with wide-ranging interviews and scientific research, The Devouring Drag on shines a spotlight on how China has put our planet's forests, wildlife, ocean s, and climate in jeopardy, multiplying the risks for everyone in our burgeoning , increasingly busy world. Catharina Sukiman (illustrator).…