Here's the thing, right? There are two clear underlying causes to all the major problems on earth. The first is overpopulation. Overpopulation means that there are too many people chasing after too many resources - energy, water, land etc. which...
Tucked away in the news-in-briefs, but possible a very significant deal if it can go ahead. Anything that can get a) Japan and China to cooperate and b) help solve the pollution issue has to be very positive indeed. Japan,...
Very distressing to read - and I suspect that The Guardian chose not to publish many of Jonathan Watts's pictures. More evidence that many Chinese have scant regard for the world we live in and the things we share it....
Can Europe Help Tame China’s Environmental Nemesis? BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China admits to climate failings "Compared with social and economic modernisation, China's ecological modernisation lags far behind," said the research group's director, He Chuanqi. Damn right. The single...
Energy and emissions are bursting onto the mainstream political agenda in a big way already in 2007. First there was the announcement of an EU common energy policy initiative, and now 16 Asian and Pacific states, including Japan, China and...
If this doesn't look like an omen of impending disaster in China, then what does? Despite the lip service to the environment, the fact that this kind of thing can, and often does, happen is an indication of laissez faire...
One to note for my forthcoming paper on the value of European pressure on China's environmental policy. How charities can help China's social and economic development | Society | SocietyGuardian.co.uk The last two decades of China's growth were based on...
Comment is free: Can China go green? Dongtan is to be built on Chongming island in the Yangtze river delta, over an area three-quarters of the size of Manhattan island - 86 square kilometres. It has been commissioned by the...
Caption competition - tell me what Mao is thinking here and win a year's supply of chicken feet. Seriously, if you ever needed evidence of the growing contradictions of Chinese society, look no further than today's BBC News. On the...
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | China hit by rising air pollution Last week, the Associated Press news agency reported that researchers on the west coast of the US were monitoring the impact of pollution from China. The report said that...
Grotesque factual errors aside (3.2billion in China's cities by next year, anyone?), Tristram Hunt in Comment is Free correctly draws the comparison between modern urban China and Dickensian Britain. The only difference is that there's no Dickens calling for reform....
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Yaks threaten China's 'miracle' train line As well as the yaks, Tibet has found a most unlikely ally in the struggle against the Han influx: The line depends on coolants to stop the ice...
About time too. But is this big spend on tackling China's environmental problems too little too late? The environmental degradation in China is phenomenal. I'll never forget the taste of chemicals on my tongue after I gave up smoking; the...
Of course it is impossible to predict what course the future will take with regard to potential conflict with China. What follows is thus quite speculative. But there are a few factors pertaining to the period around 2012, the next...
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