From Asia Times Online: With its annual gross domestic product (GDP) growing by a breakneck 8% on average in the past 25 years, China has emerged as the picture of economic wonder. But its prosperity has come at a heavy cost to its ecology and natural resources. Alarmed by the warnings of green doomsdayers, the […]
Read MoreFrom the SPIEGEL : The world has been dazzled in recent years by the economic strides being made by China. But it has come at a huge cost to the country’s environment. Pollution is a serious and costly problem. Pan Yue of the ministry of the environment says these problems will soon overwhelm the country […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters India: China’s strong economic growth could soon be endangered because of the damage it is causing to the environment, a Chinese government official warned on Saturday in an interview with German news magazine Der Spiegel. Pan Yue, vice director of the State Environmental Protection Administration, said air and water pollution were already costing […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua Online: Chinese top legislature passed Monday the Renewable Energy Law to ease the energy strain, secure the country’s energy security and better protect ecological environment. The bill on renewable energy was deliberated a second time during the 14th session of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) from Feb. 25 to […]
Read MoreFrom TIME.com: The author of Guns, Germs, and Steel asks, Why do some civilizations die out while others survive? There are no trees more than 10 ft. tall on Easter Island. That’s not its most famous mystery–there’s the little matter of those giant brooding statues–but it is kind of weird. Easter Island is less forested […]
Read MoreFrom the Independent : China has abruptly slowed and halted work on building 22 major dams and power stations in a dramatic greening of the policies of the world’s most populous nation. The surprise move – one of the most dramatic ever undertaken by any government – arises from rapidly growing environmental concern in China. […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily Online: On January 16, 2000, the State Council set up a task force to implement its strategic resolution on developing China’s west. Since then, the central government reiterated its commitment to the strategy for several times. Amazing changes have taken place in the land covering 6.85 million square kilometers with a pollution […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Yahoo! News: “China’s growing reliance on imported oil, pollution and looming water shortages pose the major threats to its economic development, a senior World Bank (news – web sites) official said Thursday. “The sustainability issues in China are the key issues in the next three to five years and the ones that […]
Read MoreThe inaugural issue of the revamped Far Eastern Economic Review features a translation of a section of an Investigation into China’s Peasantry, by Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao, who are now being tried for libel. The site is accessible by subscription only, but excerpts are below.
Read MoreVia Yahoo! News, from AFP: “China faces water shortage of 40 billion cubic meters (1,400 billion cubic feet) every year with severe water pollution posing a threat to the health of millions of people, state media reported. More than 400 of 669 Chinese cities are facing water shortages, among which the situation in 110 cities […]
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