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St. Martin's Press
April 2015
On Sale: March 24, 2015
ISBN: 1250029503
EAN: 9781250029508
Kindle: B00NDZZ112
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Non-Fiction
A thousand years ago in a Himalayan valley, the village of
Kumik was founded. For generations, Kumik villagers survived
by learning to cultivate their mountain terrain, drawing
from the waters of the glacier and snows above the village.
But now the glacier is almost gone, and Kumik is dying. Why? As this remarkable book reveals, the likely culprit is black
carbon, the most dangerous pollutant in the world and the
least understood. Black carbon absorbs more heat per unit of
mass in the atmosphere than greenhouse gases, and
contributes as much to melting the glaciers of the Himalaya
as carbon dioxide. It's also a major component of the
household air pollution that causes 4.3 million deaths each
year from respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses- and 3
million more from outdoor pollutants such as industrial
exhaust. Black carbon threatens to overwhelm Kumik, unless
the village can change the way it cooks, heats, farms and lives. In Fire and Ice, Jonathan Mingle weaves a dramatic narrative
of one remote village's inspiring efforts to adapt to a
rapidly changing environment; a scientific detective tale
about the impact of fire on every nation worldwide, and an
account of the urgent global effort to fight a universal
scourge. Ranging from the Tibetan Plateau to conference
rooms in New York and Washington, D.C., from Delhi and
Kathmandu and China to northern California, Fire and Ice is
a heroic exploration of resilience, invention, and our race
to change the fate of our planet.
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