Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Originally Published: China's Growing Pains, March 2004; pp. 68-95.
"China may be getting richer as it turns into the workshop of the world, but as Beijingers rich and poor admit, what good is money if you can't breathe the air?" (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC) This article examines the environmental ills in China and states that "if the economy keeps roaring along, within three decades China could overtake the U.S. as the world's largest source of greenhouse gases, associated with global warming."
1522-3205;
Air pollution--China Economic development--Environmental aspects Environmental protection--China Greenhouse gases Health risk assessment Water pollution--China Water-supply--China
China--Environmental conditions China--Industries China--Politics and government