China's Environment, Domestic and Global Considerations


Speaker	Dr. Thomas Gold
Summary	Prof. Thomas Gold gives an overview to China’s Current Environment Issues, both domestic and global concerns, such as air, water, soil, food safety, waste disposal. He points out that China’s experience is not unique, as most industrializing nations undergo the tradeoff between economic development and environment sustainability, but China’s scale is much larger. China’s traditional view of nature is that Nature is much greater than humanity, yet humans can control nature, for example, by controlling floods with damns. Unlike India, the Chinese government is acknowledging.
Keywords	environment sustainability, economic growth
Publish Date	August 4, 2014
Source	Speech given at 1990 Institute Teachers Workshop on “Balancing Eonomic Development ant Environmental Sustainability”, August 4-5, 2014, at San Mateo County Office of Education, Redwood City, CA.
Speaker Bio	Thomas Gold Bio

China’s Environment, Domestic and Global Considerations