At heart his book is not a call for panic, but a demonstration that - even with the crisis so severe, and the political scope so limited - the actions of individuals can make a difference.
Consistently attentive to human detail, Watts vividly portrays individual lives in a country all too often viewed from outside as a faceless state.
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Full of astonishing personal stories, When a Billion Chinese Jump: Voices from the Frontline of Climate Change by Jonathan Watts is an essential and incisive discussion on China today - a country on an environmental precipice that will affect the entire world - and a compelling look at the lives of its people.
| Map of China |
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| Introduction: Beijing |
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| Southwest: Nature |
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1 Useless Trees Shangri-La |
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9 | (25) |
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2 Foolish Old Men The Tibetan Plateau |
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34 | (22) |
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3 Still Waters, Moving Earth Sichuan |
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56 | (23) |
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4 Fishing with Explosives Hubei and Guangxi |
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79 | (24) |
| Southeast: Man |
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5 Made in China? Guangdong |
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103 | (19) |
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6 Gross Domestic Pollution Jiangsu and Zhejiang |
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122 | (23) |
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7 From Horizontal Green to Vertical Grey Chongqing |
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145 | (14) |
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8 Conspicuous Consumption Shanghai |
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159 | (26) |
| Northwest: Imbalance |
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9 Why Do So Many People Hate Henan? Henan |
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185 | (22) |
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10 The Carbon Trap Shaanxi and Shanxi |
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207 | (20) |
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11 Deserts Would Be Great If It Weren't for All That Sand Gansu and Ningxia |
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227 | (20) |
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12 Flaming Mountain, Melting Heaven Xinjiang |
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247 | (24) |
| Northeast: Alternatives |
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13 Science versus Maths Tianjin, Hebei and Liaoning |
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271 | (29) |
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14 Fertility Treatment Shandong |
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300 | (23) |
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15 An Odd Sort of Dictatorship Heilongjiang |
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323 | (30) |
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353 | (30) |
| Afterword: Peaking Man |
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383 | (10) |
| Acknowledgements |
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393 | (6) |
| Notes |
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399 | (64) |
| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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| A Prefatory Note |
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| Foreword |
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| Step One Admitting There Is A Problem And Defining That Problem |
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1 | (6) |
| Step Two The Importance Of Language, Or Learning How To Speak |
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7 | (10) |
| Step Three Telling The Truth |
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17 | (8) |
| Step Four Defining The Classes |
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25 | (6) |
| Step Five Legitimizing Psychotherapy In Political Development |
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31 | (10) |
| Step Six Every Day |
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41 | (8) |
| Step Seven Making Democracy |
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49 | (8) |
| Step Eight Attempting To Understand The Mind In Relation To The Economic Infrastructure |
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57 | (6) |
| Step Nine Discontinuing The Practice Of Living In The Past |
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63 | (6) |
| Step Ten Understanding Cost |
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69 | (10) |
| Step Eleven Understanding Your Worth |
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79 | (4) |
| Step Twelve Defining, And Then Claiming, Genius |
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83 | (8) |
| Afterword |
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Jonathan Watts is the Guardian's Asia environment correspondent and recently covered the Copenhagen Climate Conference. He was short-listed for Foreign Correspondent of the Year at the 2006 British Press Awards, and he and his research assistant were awarded the One World Media Award for best press story in 2007. In 2009, he was a co-winner of the environment prize at the One World Media Awards for a series on the global food crisis.
