02536nam 2200529 450 991080742530332120230803031059.01-877551-96-1(CKB)2670000000405764(EBL)1273954(OCoLC)854520532(SSID)ssj0001605977(PQKBManifestationID)16314742(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001605977(PQKBWorkID)14896583(PQKB)11127312(MiAaPQ)EBC1273954(Au-PeEL)EBL1273954(EXLCZ)99267000000040576420220514d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe devouring dragon how China's rise threatens our natural world /Craig SimonsWellington, New Zealand :Awa Press,[2013]©20131 online resource (366 p.)Description based upon print version of record.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<P style=""MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"" class=MsoNormal>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 counNatureEffect of human beings onChinaEnvironmental responsibilityChinaEnvironmental policyChinaNatureEffect of human beings onEnvironmental responsibilityEnvironmental policy363.70951Simons Craig1695126MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807425303321The devouring dragon4074138UNINA