China has not exactly had the lightest environmental impact, and it's Communist.
I can't help but feel that the author has an axe to grind without the substance to back it up.
This is way there is so much nostalgy of coming back to simple rural living. This is why philosophy (epicureism, cynism, Rousseau) are critical of urban living.
People had been made to cooperate not to compete with each other. Human beeing is not the largest, strongest or quickest of animals but are able to cooperate for the common good.
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