No rain in the Amazon [electronic resource] : how South America's climate change affects the entire planet / Nikolas Kozloff.
Kozloff, Nikolas.
2010
QC903.2.S63 K69 2010eb
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Title No rain in the Amazon [electronic resource] : how South America's climate change affects the entire planet / Nikolas Kozloff.
Author Kozloff, Nikolas.
ISBN 9780230107601 (electronic bk.)
9780230614765
Imprint New York City : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (245 p.)
Call Number QC903.2.S63 K69 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 333.75/16098
Summary Acting as the planet's air conditioner, the rainforest sucks up millions of tons of greenhouse gases and stores them safely out of the atmosphere. South America's deforestation threatens to unleash a kind of "carbon bomb" that will add to our already deteriorating climate difficulties. As he travels across Peru and Brazil, recognized South America expert Nikolas Kozloff talks to locals, scientists and activists about the rainforest and what should be done to avert its collapse. Drawing on his expertise of South American politics, Kozloff argues that cooperation between the world's countries is essential in turning back the tide of climate change and that the fate of the planet depends on our response to environmental problems within the southern hemisphere.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Epilogue : food and farmers in an era of climatic uncertainty.

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