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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 coun 606 $aNature$xEffect of human beings on$zChina 606 $aEnvironmental responsibility$zChina 606 $aEnvironmental policy$zChina 615 0$aNature$xEffect of human beings on 615 0$aEnvironmental responsibility 615 0$aEnvironmental policy 676 $a363.70951 700 $aSimons$b Craig$01695126 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807425303321 996 $aThe devouring dragon$94074138 997 $aUNINA