Overview

South of the equator lies the key to the planet's health - the Amazon rainforest. Experts estimate that the Amazon produces a shocking twenty percent of the planet's oxygen, but global warming is already causing widespread destruction. While the glaciers slowly melt in the Arctic, scientists predict those in the Andes will entirely melt by 2015. The El Nino weather patterns and hurricanes that played havoc with the southeast of the United States for the last several years have tormented both coasts of South America for several decades. Recognized South America expert, Nikolas Kozloff guides the reader through the politics and science of a continent in peril, showing how its problems are a microcosm of the environmental ravages occuring the world over. Drawing on his unique access to South American leaders, Kozloff argues that cooperation between the world's countries is vital in turning back the tide of climate change, and that the fate of the planet is depends on our response to environmental problems of the southern hemisphere.

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A solid contribution to the growing canon of work on global climate change -- from an unconventional and essential perspective... Recommended. -- CHOICE <p> Much of the global warming attention has been focused on the high north, but this valuable book reminds us not to forget, even for a second, the contribution the rainforest plays to keeping our planet habitable--and the fears that it may soon reverse that role, with disastrous consequences. --Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, and the National Bestseller Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future <p> No Rain in the Amazon is an urgent call to action, providing convincing evidence on how much is at stake in safeguarding the Amazon for the entire planet. Chronicling the work of social movements and scientists towards finding solutions, this is a critically important book for anyone who cares about tackling climate change. --Atossa Soltani, Founder & Executive Director, Amazon Watch<p> Nikolas Kozloff has issued a Code Red alert from the pulmonary system of the planet. This meticulously researched and urgently written book documents the perilous condition of Amazonia and by extension the tenuous fate of life on Earth as we know it. Kozloff pinpoints the manifold forces, economic and political, driving the senseless destruction of the world's greatest rainforest and its indigenous cultures and ecosystems. He vividly and convincingly links the deforestation of the Amazon to the impending prospect of runaway climate change. Time is running out. Kozloff has done his job. Now it's up to us to intervene. Read it, absorb it, act on it. -- Jeffrey St. Clair, author Born Under a Bad Sky, co-editor of CounterPunch <p> If you care about the future of our world--the health of our planet, the legacy we leave our children--I urge you to read No Rain in the Amazon. Compellingly readable, it's an intriguing, jolting, authoritative account of one of the greate

A solid contribution to the growing canon of work on global climate change -- from an unconventional and essential perspective... Recommended. -- CHOICE <p> Much of the global warming attention has been focused on the high north, but this valuable book reminds us not to forget, even for a second, the contribution the rainforest plays to keeping our planet habitable--and the fears that it may soon reverse that role, with disastrous consequences. --Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, and the National Bestseller Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future <p> No Rain in the Amazon is an urgent call to action, providing convincing evidence on how much is at stake in safeguarding the Amazon for the entire planet. Chronicling the work of social movements and scientists towards finding solutions, this is a critically important book for anyone who cares about tackling climate change. --Atossa Soltani, Founder & Executive Director, A

<p>&#8220;Much of the global warming attention has been focused on the high north, but this valuable book reminds us not to forget, even for a second, the contribution the rainforest plays to keeping our planet habitable--and the fears that it may soon reverse that role, with disastrous consequences.&#8221; --Bill McKibben, author of&#160; Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, and the National Bestseller Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future <p>&#8220; No Rain in the Amazon is an urgent call to action, providing convincing evidence on how much is at stake in safeguarding the Amazon for the entire planet. Chronicling the work of social movements and scientists towards finding solutions, this is a critically important book for anyone who cares about tackling climate change.&#8221;--Atossa Soltani, Founder &amp; Executive Director, Amazon Watch<p>&#8220;Nikolas Kozloff has issued a Code Red alert from the pulmonary system of the planet. This meticulousl

'The great merit of Kozloff's book is that he does not simply ask us to be interested in something happening a long way away. He makes the link between events on the other side of the earth and their repercussions on the world's climate system, which affects us all...thanks to Kozloff's book, we are reminded why we should care.' - The Tablet

Author Information

NIKOLAS KOZLOFF is senior research fellow at the Council on Hemospheric Affairs in Washington, D.C. and the author of Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics and the Challenge to the US (Palgrave Macmillan 2007) and Revolution! (Palgrave Macmillan 2008). He blogs on CounterPunch and has appeared on PBS World Focus, C-SPAN Washington Journal and The Daily Show.

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