The contestation of world economies and the trappings of geopolitics coupled with First Worldism in the current postmodern agenda offer a viable operation site for the various scientific and industrial inventions worldwide. Whether from Tokyo, Beijing, Washington D.C, Johannesburg, or Lagos man's so-called giant strides in architectural designs and technology keep reminding us of how much harm has been done to nature. Adopting a critical textual analysis within the context of Ecocritical theory, this paper seeks to explore The Dark Road (2012) by Ma Jian, and Sefi Atta's short story “News From Home" (2010), as a direct response to the challenges of the environmental degradation in the face of burgeoning economic order and globalization. The study contextualizes the challenging experiences of China and Nigeria on issues of environmental degradation as both countries struggled with man-made disasters. Beyond this, this paper highlights the devaluation of the environment in global cities and the apocalyptic warnings such human action portends. Findings reveal that humanity has eroded the quality of nature by engaging in activities that plunder natural landscapes. The study further revealed the contradictions and odds against the operation of industrialization; besides the fact that it makes the environment toxic for living, it also hampers our capitalist tradition which is retrogressive to conservation. In all, the novelists' ecocentric stance is not only discursive of vulnerability of 21^st century social environment, but also indicative of the ecoglobal perspective of contemporary Nigerian and Chinese novelists.