Yesterday Jonathan Watts held a book talk at The Bookworm about his new book titled “When a Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save Mankind – Or Destroy It”. The book, which I have yet to read, is an eyewitness account of China’s environmental problems, and solutions.
Jonathan’s book reminded me to revisit Lu Guang’s photos of pollution in China. Lu Guang received last year’s W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his unsettling account of the people living in some of China’s most polluted areas.
The stories he tells are rather gloomy. Let’s hope Jonathan Watts was right when he said that while China’s environmental problems are worse than we think, they are also doing more about them than most countries.
Lu Guang’s photos as well as an interview with him can be found on China Hush.
