Richard Smith wrote his PhD thesis on China's economic reforms and has written extensively Chinese issues for New Left Review, Monthly Review, Real-World Economics Review, and Ecologist. He has also written essays collected in Green Capitalism: The God that Failed (2016) and in The Democracy Collaborative's Next System Project (2017). Smith is also a founding member of the US-based group System Change Not Climate Change.
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Names of Rivers in this Volume
Introduction: China as an Environmental Rogue State
1. The "China Price": Police-State Capitalism and the Great Acceleration of
Global Consumption
2. "Blind Growth": Scenes of Planetary Destruction from the Twelfth
Five-Year Plan
3. The Damage Done: The Poisoning of China's Water, Soil, and Foods
4. Cooking the Planet for What End?
5. China's Engine of Environmental Collapse
6. Guanxi and the Game of Thrones: Wealth, Property, and Insecurity in a
Lawless System
7. Grabbing the Emergency Brake
8. The Next Chinese Revolution
Appendix
References
Index
