In twenty short books Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. The
courageous unflinching speeches and writings collected in The Most Dammed Country in the World
detail the devastating human and environmental cost of China's economic rise. Over the past 75
years a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans
visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet and affirm
our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades
becoming the classics of a movement. Together these books show the richness of environmental
thought and point the way to a fairer saner greener world.
