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Meltdown in Tibet

Autor Michael Buckley
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 noi 2014

Tibetans have experienced waves of genocide since the 1950s. Now they are facing ecocide. The Himalayan snowcaps are in meltdown mode, due to climate change accelerated by a rain of black soot from massive burning of coal and other fuels in both China and India. The mighty rivers of Tibet are being dammed by Chinese engineering consortiums to feed the mainland's thirst for power, and the land is being relentlessly mined in search of minerals to feed China's industrial complex. On the drawing board are plans for a massive engineering project to divert water from Eastern Tibet to water-starved Northern China. Ruthless Chinese repression leaves Tibetans powerless to stop the reckless destruction of their sacred land, but they are not the only victims of this campaign: the nations downstream from Tibet rely heavily on rivers sourced in Tibet for water supply, and for rich silt used in agriculture. This destruction of the region's environment has been happening with little scrutiny until now. In "Meltdown in Tibet, " Michael Buckley turns the spotlight on the darkest side of China's emergence as a global super power."

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137279545
ISBN-10: 1137279540
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: Includes 8 pages of b&w photos
Dimensiuni: 157 x 236 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Palgrave MacMillan Trade
Locul publicării:Basingstoke, United Kingdom

Descriere

Tibetans have experienced waves of genocide since the 1950s. Now they are facing ecocide. The Himalayan snowcaps are in meltdown mode, due to climate change - accelerated by a rain of black soot from massive burning of coal and other fuels in both China and India. The mighty rivers of Tibet are being dammed by Chinese engineering consortiums to feed the mainland’s thirst for power, and the land is being relentlessly mined in search of minerals to feed China’s industrial complex. On the drawing board are plans for a massive engineering project to divert water from Eastern Tibet to water-starved Northern China. Ruthless Chinese repression leaves Tibetans powerless to stop the reckless destruction of their sacred land, but they are not the only victims of this campaign: the nations downstream from Tibet rely heavily on rivers sourced in Tibet for water supply, and for rich silt used in agriculture. This ecocide has been happening with little scrutiny until now. Meltdown in Tibet turns the spotlight on the darkest side of China's emergence as a global super power.

Notă biografică

Michael Buckley is an award-winning Canadian journalist who, amongst other things, wrote Lonely Planet’s first guidebook to Tibet (the first guidebook ever to Tibet) in 1986. A freelance travel writer and photographer, he has traveled extensively throughout Southeast Asia, and the Himalayan and Karakoram ranges. He has made two short documentaries about major environmental issues in Tibet and moves between Asia and Vancouver, Canada.

Caracteristici

1) FIRST TO ACKNOWLEDGE ECOCIDE: This the first book to document the havoc that Chinese industrialization is wreaking on Tibet's fragile environment as well as its people.

2) SUPPORT FROM DALAI LAMA: The author and agent have guaranteed quotes and an introduction or foreword by his holiness the Dalai Lama.

3) AUTHOR OF FIRST GUIDEBOOK:Buckley travelled to Tibet in 1985 when the country first opened up to individual travelers to write the premiere English guidebook to Tibet and has been engaged in researching Tibet and Tibetan culture ever since.

4) EXPERIENCED JOURNALIST:Buckley has been published in over 80 magazines, newspapers and news sources, including: The Globe & Mail, National Wildlife, CNN Traveller, TIME Asia, BBC Wildlife, Discovery Channel Magazine, The Guardian, Outpost, Abentueur und Reisen, and Trek & Mountain Magazine.