Pan Yue

Environmental protection needs to pay attention to issues of culture and ethics, says Pan Yue. In the concluding part of his two-part essay, Pan calls on youth to step forward and embrace idealism once again.

We [in China] are widely recognised as having achieved an economic miracle, but we have paid an enormous price. Now is the time for a fair and sustainable model of growth.
(Pan Yue is deputy director of China’s State Environmental Protection Administration)