Conditions in China.

10/04/11

While working on the matrix we found that all our facts come across the issue of 'Population impacts on the environment' this is due to China being the country with the largest population. It was tough to find further information on specific problems due to China eliminating all its information from Google, sadly but truly that is our first and most reliable resource. Though we have been able to find some good information we will search for more information in the library. In the mean time here are some fun facts!

• In the last two years, China has emerged as the dominant player in green energy — especially in solar power.
• China has a rural population of 750 million. Due to economic and technical limitations, people in the most rural areas still use traditional biomass energy.
• China is the worlds number one user of chemical pesticides and fertilisers
• Factories that dump pollutants into the air and water produce cheaper products than ones that filter out pollutants and treat waste water.
• The massive hydroelectric dam, sandwiched between breathtaking cliffs on the Yangtze River in central China, may be triggering landslides, altering entire ecosystems and causing other serious environmental problems.
• Economic development has spurred deforestation and pollution in surrounding provinces in central China, endangering at least 57 plant species, including the Chinese dove tree and the dawn redwood

We are having a tough time finding 'alien species' that China has an invasion with...