The German-language St. Galler Tagblatt (Switzerland) has published my article Amerika wird Grün (“America Goes Green”). Included with the article is a brief interview with me.
The article can be read at the St. Galler Tagblatt website.
[Thanks to Thomas Spang for the interview and the link.]
The article As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes (NY Times; Aug 26, 2007) makes for important, if discouraging, reading–all the more so because the same basic facts and trajectory have been clear for over a decade now.
I should know.
I wrote what, I think, was the first extensive report on China’s environmental crisis by an independent western reporter back in 1997–first, in an article for The Atlantic Monthly and, in more length and detail in my 1998 book, Earth Odyssey: Around the World In Search of Our Environmental Future.
The NYT story reported almost nothing that I did not say in that article, “Our Real China Problem,” ten years ago; in fact, I predicted that China’s environmental actions would soon command the world’s attention as much as its economic prowess already was.
Here’s a link to that original article: http://www.markhertsgaard.com/articles/108
[Thanks to Michael Dietrick bringing the NYT article to my attention.]