Richard Smith, “China’s drivers and planetary ecological collapse”, real-world economics review, issue no. 82, 13 December 2017, pp. 2-28, http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue82/Smith82.pdf see for excerpts: https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Ecological_Transition_in_China Dear all, My recent trip to China was a bit of a wake up call for me, discovering the official pivot towards ecological transformation, and while many good initiatives and plans are on the table, this analsys convincingly shows why despite all these efforts, they can't succeed under present political and social conditions. In terms of the global situation and our prospects for ecological salvation, this is really really an essential and must-strategic read. This doesn't mean I will stop inquiring about their successes with biocapacity indicators and footprint efforts of course, but it sets everything in a much more realistic light. Richard Smith looks like a genius analyst in my mind and what he says about the nature of the recent regime is absolutely stellar, -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/