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Mao and the chinese communist partys war to bend the physical world to human will often had disastrous consequences for both human beings and the natural environment. Politics and the environment in revolutionary china, by. Maoist china provides an example of extreme human interference in the natural world in an era in which human relationships were also unusually distorted. Politics and the environment in revolutionary china. Mao s war against nature argues that the abuse of people and the abuse of nature are often linked.