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The industrial civilization doubtlessly represents huge progress of mankind, but as traditional industrial mode is unsustainable, ecological civilization has become the only choice to achieve sustainable development. When we discuss ecological civilization, one typical thinking is to equate it with green industrial civilization, which hopes to resolve environmental problems through technological progress under the traditional industrial mode.
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Zhang, Y. (2021). Ecological Civilization is Not Equal to Green Industrial Civilization. In: Pan, J., Gao, S., Li, Q., Wang, J., Wu, D., Huang, C. (eds) Beautiful China: 70 Years Since 1949 and 70 People’s Views on Eco-civilization Construction. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6742-5_50
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