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China's rise is assaulting the natural world at an alarming rate. In a few short 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 hunt 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 surpassed the U.S. and Europe as the planet's worst-polluting superpower. It argues that China's most important twenty-first-century legacy will be determined not by jobs, corporate profits, or political alliances, but by how quickly its growth degrades the global environment and whether it can stem the damage.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning The environment Pollution & threats to the environment

• Full title: Devouring Dragon
• Author: Craig Simons
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9781250050137
• ISBN: 1250050138
• ID: 04953651
• Publisher: Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.
• Weight: 268 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 140 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 2014

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