This prognosis might be somewhat mi

This prognosis might be somewhat mitigated if the Chinese increase public education on environmental issues and permit the formation of policy oriented "green" movement among the populace. Precisely because environmental issues rarely coincide with existing political boundaries, green movement from below can be especially important in creating a constituency for targeted action by showing the true dimensions of specific environmental insults. These movement can pull together affected people from various political jurisdiction and create a unified front of information, opinion, and visibility. In both the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, such movement became important to the political evolution of the regimes during the 1980s.