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Join AmCham China for its summer film series on environmental change. These films document the relationship between human activity and environmental change through a series of documentaries by John D. Liu, filmmaker and environmental activist.
Join AmCham China for its summer film series on environmental change. These films document the relationship between human activity and environmental change through a series of documentaries by John D. Liu, filmmaker and environmental activist.
In the final film in AmCham China's summer film series, "A Line in the Sand" examines Alashan, a remote region of grassland or steppe in the Mongolian Autonomous Region of China. This is now a desert that is growing by 1000 square kilometers per year. Fifty years ago there were 50 springs in the area, three rivers and 800 small lakes. Today, sand dunes roll across the plain and the springs, rivers and most of the lakes are gone. This Earth Report film travels to Alashan to find out what has gone so drastically wrong over so short a time, and to see what the Chinese authorities and development agencies are doing to draw a line in the sand.
