BY ALICE PHILIPSONHONG KONG: China’s millennials are increasingly pursuing happiness and sustainable living rather than wealth and luxury, award-winning science-fiction writer Chen Qiufan says, insisting that the nation’s young people are waking up to environmental issues. “The younger generation are paying more and more attention to this issue,” says Chen, a former Google employee. ‘Environmental calamity’The Chinese are showing their concern online, too. “There was a childhood friend who worked for an American recycling company and he told me about this place Guiyu,” Chen explains. They were infected by toxic air, water and soil.”He began to question the throwaway culture of the developed world.

Source: Manila Times November 09, 2019 16:35 UTC