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Touring the Climate Crisis : Saving the Earth Around the World.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hanna, Osseily, 1978- author.
- 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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