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050 14 $aGE190.C6$bS55 2013
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100 1 $aSimons, Craig,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe devouring dragon :$bhow China's rise threatens our natural world /$cCraig Simons.
250 $aFirst St. Martin's Griffin edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Griffin,$c2014.
300 $avii, 295 pages :$bmaps ;$c21 cm
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500 $aOriginally published in hardcover in 2013.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPart 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.
520 $a"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. It's rapid 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 earth-ward after trans-Pacific jet-stream journeys. Craig Simon's ... argues that China's most important twenty-first-century legacy will be determined by jobs, corporate profits, or political alliances, but by how quickly its growth degrades the global environment and whether it can stem the damage."--Back cover.
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