Why China’s an Environmental Disaster Area–and Why that Won’t Change Anytime Soon – Bill Powell

From The China Blog – TIME:

Two prominent economists, Zheng Yisheng and Qian Yihong, have written a piece that, as straightforwardly as anything I’ve seen written by academics or policy wonks here in China, gets at exactly why it’s so tough to make any progress reconciling economic growth with the environmental catastrophe unfolding in this country. [Full Text]