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Touring the Climate Crisis : Saving the Earth Around the World.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hanna, Osseily, 1978- author.
Contributor:
Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Climatic changes.
Climatic changes--Economic aspects.
Climatic changes--Social aspects.
Climate Change.
Medical Subjects:
Climate Change.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (317 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Distribution:
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2021.
Place of Publication:
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]
Summary:
Osseily Hanna analyzes the links between climate change, social and wealth inequalities, the Global North and Global South, and renewable and fossil energy based on his 6-year journey across 32 countries by documenting the testimonies of people who are affected by or fighting climate change, and who have devised ingenious local solutions to beat it.
Contents:
Intro
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I LATIN AMERICA
1 From the Jungles of Mexico to the Skyscrapers of Panama
2 Colombian Energy
3 Two Great Forests
4 Ingenious Shantytowns
5 The Open Veins of Latin America
II UNITED STATES AND EUROPE
6 American Power
7 Food in the City
8 Cities of the Future
9 Crossing Europe
10 Reflecting and Reviving
Part III AFRICA
11 Flight of the Honeybee
12 Thank You for the Rain
13 Journey South
14 Generations of Miners
Part IV ASIA
15 In the Shadow of the Towers
16 Hong Kong Isolation
17 From Hiroshima with Love
Part V JOURNEY'S END
18 Lessons Learned
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Print version record.
ISBN:
979-82-16-41396-7
1-5381-4947-8
OCLC:
1246578411

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