Jonathan S. Watts

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Jonathan Watts is Global Environment Editor of the Guardian and the author of the eco-travelogue, When a Billion Chinese Jump. He has is an experienced, award-winning journalist who previously served as correspondent in Japan (1996-2003), China (2003-2012) and Brazil (2012-2017). He has written extensively on climate change, deforestation, pollution and the trade in environmental stress on travels that have taken him from the Amazon and Andes to the Gobi and Himalayas.

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Books by Jonathan S. Watts

When A Billion Chinese Jump

How China Will Save Mankind -- Or Destroy It

By Jonathan S. Watts

As a young child, Jonathan Watts believed if everyone in China jumped at the same time, the earth would be shaken off its axis, annihilating mankind.

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