Water. The Epic Struggle For Wealth, Power, And Civilization

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: First Edition

Description: 596 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasiits a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by the melting of the loss of the glaciers at its source to global warming. Four hundred million people depend on it, and theres no backup plan. As Steven Solomon makes clear, the same is true the world over; this volume will give you the background to understand the forces that will drive much of 21st century history. Bill McKibben In Water, esteemed journalist Steven Solomon describes a terrifyingand all too realworld in which access to fresh water has replaced oil as the primary cause of global conflicts that increasingly emanate from drought-ridden, overpopulated areas of the world. Meticulously researched and undeniably prescient, Water is a stunningly clear-eyed action statement on what Robert F Kennedy, Jr. calls the biggest environmental and political challenge of our time.

ISBN: 9780060548308