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Earth Odyssey

by Mark Hertsgaard

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Broadway (1998), Edition: 1st, Hardcover

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Das Buch 'Earth odyssey: around the world in search of our environmental future' von Mark Hertsgaard beschreibt eine Reise des Autors durch verschiedene Länder in verschiedenen Kontinenten. Im Blick sind aktuelle umweltrelevante Themen, wie z.B. im Kapitel 3 (The irresistable automobile) die Entwicklung des motorisierten Individualverkehrs und die Konsequenzen die daraus für die menschliche Gesundheit, die Umwelt und den Ressourcenverbrauch entstehen. Dabei beschreibt er nicht nur seine Erlebnisse mit Staus in Bangkok, sondern zeichnet auch die Geschichte der Zerstörung der Eisenbahnlinien in den USA durch die Automobilindustrie mit den dazugehörigen Akteueren nach.
Thematisch geht es auch um soziale Themen wie Armut, Hunger, Ungleichverteilung etc. Er schafft es, eine Verbindung zwischen ökologischen, sozialen und politischen Aspekten zu schaffen und sein Backgroundwissen über diese Zusammenhänge und die geschichtlichen Hintergründe in die Reisebeschreibungen zu integrieren.

Überblick über die einzelnen Kapitel:
Prologue - Playing the Sorcerer's Apprentice
Chapter 1 - "...We Are Still Here."
Chapter 2 - Bicycles, Churchill, and Evolution
Chapter 3 - The Irresistible Automobile
Chapter 4 - To the Nuclear Lighthouse
Chapter 5 - "Is Your Stomach Too Full?"
Chapter 6 - How Population Matters
Chapter 7 - The Hurrical of Hell
Chapter 8 - Sustainable Development and the Triumph of Capitalism
Chapter 9 - Living in Hope
Epilogue - Ambassadors from Another Time
  litse08 | May 13, 2009 |
A well written book that is a travel log and, perhaps most importantly, an expose of how environmental issues effect those who we may not realize are effected by them. Through interviews and stories with people in Africa, China and Europe, you will get the idea that we, in the USA are much less effected by the current state of the environment than others.

This is an important book to read that will open your eyes to how far along the path to environmental damage we really are. ( )
  fgluck | Mar 30, 2008 |
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This book is dedicated to the memory of my editor and friend, William Shawn, with whom it began.
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Paying his own way, Mark Hertsgaard set out on a world tour in 1991 wondering what people thought of environmental problems. Earth Odyssey is his result, a sweeping and provocative work of travel and serious reporting that covers 19 countries and reveals, with often stark reality and vision, the legacy and prospects for our global environment.

Hertsgaard focuses on and reveals much of his story through the people who guide him and whom he meets along the way. After touring a state-owned paper factory in Chongqing, China, and seeing billowing clouds of chlorine and foaming rivers, Hertsgaard hears his guide and interpreter Zhenbing mourning for his country. In Sudan, Hertsgaard visits areas of extreme famine and poverty, where "the environment is no abstraction" to the people who live there. Through interviews with Vaclav Havel, Jacques Cousteau, and Al Gore, as well as research and philosophy about the roles of industry and technology, the global environmental picture is etched skillfully chapter by chapter. When at Africa's Lake Turkana, Hertsgaard delineates in clarity and detail the evolution of our species and the history of technology to build perspective on our current lifestyles, values, and environmental problems.

Earth Odyssey is not only a good book, but an important one--even essential--grasping the true human predicament as we face a worldwide environmental breakdown.--Byron Ricks

(retrieved from Amazon Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:58:54 -0500)

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