"You cannot stop a billion people"

Paul Burchard (burchard@pobox.com)
Sat, 01 Nov 1997 22:25:10 -0500

Just in time for President Jiang's visit to the U.S., The Atlantic
magazine has a fascinating article about the (local and global)
environmental consequences of China's economic and political trajectory:

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97nov/china.htm

The article combines devastating anecdotes ("Zhenbing and I fell into a
running debate over which city in China had the nastiest air. ... Was it
Benxi, in Manchuria, whose pollution was so thick that in the 1980s the
city had vanished from satellite photos?") with sobering statics
("[China] has already surpassed the former Soviet Union to become the
world's second largest producer of greenhouse gases, trailing only the
United States."). Current and compelling...

PB