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Author: Craig Simons
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0312581769

The Devouring Dragon: How China's Rise Threatens Our Natural World

China's rise is assaulting the natural world at an alarming rate. Download The Devouring Dragon: How China's Rise Threatens Our Natural World from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. In a few short years, China has become the planet's largest market for endangered wildlife, its top importer of tropical trees, and its biggest emitter of greenhouse gases. Its rapid economic growth has driven up the world's very metabolism: in Brazil, farmers clear large swaths of the Amazon to plant soybeans; Indian poachers hunt tigers and elephants to feed Chinese demand; in the United States, clouds of mercury and ozone drift earthward after trans-Pacific jet-stream journeys. Craig Simons' The Devouring Dragon looks at how an ascending China has rapidly surpassed the U.S. and Europe as the planet's worst-polluting superpower. It argues that China's most importa Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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