Mark Hertsgaard was among the earliest independent Western journalists to detail the Chinese environmental crisis, following months of travel throughout China in the 1990s; his findings appeared in The Atlantic and his book, Earth Odyssey: Around the World In Search of Our Environmental Future. His latest book is, HOT: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth.
Francesca Vietor
Last Updated: November 24, 2014
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Nearly everyone agrees that the U.S.-China climate announcement is a big deal, but most observers have overlooked what truly makes it a game-changer: if the world’s two climate change superpowers limit their greenhouse gas emissions, it will have...