Although much has since been said and written about the need for China to reverse its environmental decline, recent years have abounded with news reports telling of the nation's environment lurching from bad to terrible.
I’m not quite so sure now, but I also think you appreciate living in a world where there are places of outstanding natural beauty, and where tigers prowl jungles, polar bears hunt on Arctic ice floes, pandas roam bamboo forests, and sharks patrol reefs, helping keep ecosystems in balance. If you have children, you hope they and their children can grow and live in a similar world.