Foreign affairs columnist Georgie Anne Geyer wrote an Op/Ed piece on China’s environmental crisis. In the article she wrote:
“…this is an enterprising area. In the town center nearby is the brand-new First Aircraft Institute, with first-class apartments for workers and students in the aircraft industry. A large new hotel that rivals any in the West is part of the aircraft industry story there. Agriculture and technical development: Right here, in short, we had the story of modern China.
But there is another China in this complex and confusing universe of peoples and contradictions — and it was dramatically present last week when the heavens opened up in torrential rains that caused the worst floods in decades, displacements and even deaths across China.
In this China, where the arable land is more and more taken by development, where desertification moves across the landscape, and where there are water shortages everywhere, especially in the north, lies the other story of this country. “
The full article is here.
