Name: When The Rivers Run Dry von Fred Pearce
SKU: 9781903919583
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When The Rivers Run Dry Zusammenfassung

When The Rivers Run Dry Fred Pearce

The world is running out of water. Even in the UK our reservoirs empty and there are drought warnings and hose pipe bans each year. Some of world's largest rivers now trickle into sand miles from the ocean, exhausted by human need. Water is 'the new oil' - except we can live without oil; there are no alternatives to fresh water. From Kent to Kenya, Fred Pearce explores the complex origins of the growing world water crisis. His vivid reportage reveals the personal stories behind failing rivers, barren fields, pollution, desertification, floods and water wars. Is there hope? Yes - but only if we revolutionize the way we treat water. This phenomenally important book shows us just how essential it is that each one of us takes responsibility for the way we use this crucial resource now - before all our rivers run dry.

When The Rivers Run Dry Bewertungen

If ever a book has been written that demands to be read it is this one. This is that rare thing - a journey through a hugely important and complex subject in the company of a natural storyteller who makes you feel intelligent. -- Tim Smit Of all the travel books I have ever read this is the most frightening, the most inspiring and the most important...A book every politician must be made to read and understand. David Bellamy Environmental journalist Fred Pearce's book, When the Rivers Run Dry could not be better timed -- Robin McKie The Observer ...Pearce argues powerfully that unless mankind can rethink its whole attitude towards the use and misuse of resource, the consequence could be famine, pestilence and even war for huge numbers of human beings. -- Trevor Grove Daily Mail Veteran science writer Pearce (Turning Up the Heat) makes a strong - and scary - case that a worldwide water shortage is the most fearful looming environmental crisis. With a drumbeat of facts both horrifc...and fascinating...the former New Scientist news editor documents a 'kind of cataclysm' already affecting many of the world's great rivers. Publishers Weekly

Über Fred Pearce

Fred Pearce is a former news editor at New Scientist magazine, and is currently its environment and development consultant. He has written 14 previous books, which have been published in the UK and US and translated into French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Norwegian and Portugueseis. He writes regularly for the Independent and the Times Higher Education Supplement, the Boston Globe and Foreign Policy in the US. He is also syndicated in Japan, Australia and elsewhere and has filed articles from more than 50 countries in the past decade. He was voted BEMA Environment Journalist of the Year in 2001 and has been short-listed for the same award in 2000, 2002 and 2003. He is a past recipient of the Peter Kent Conservation Book Award and the TES Junior Information Book Award. His books have been translated into eight languages. He is a regular broadcaster on radio and TV, with interview credits from Today to Richard and Judy to the Open University.

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GOR002019173

ISBN 13

9781903919583

ISBN 10

1903919584

Titel

When The Rivers Run Dry Fred Pearce

Autor

Fred Pearce

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Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

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Broschiert

Verlag

Transworld Publishers Ltd

Datum

20070402

Anzahl der Seiten

368

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