Steven Solomon

Water

The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization

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I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasi—it's 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 there's 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 terrifying—and all too real—world in which access to fresh water has replaced oil as the primary ca… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-06-199478-4
EAN: 9780061994784
Produktnummer: 29233081
Verlag: Harpercollins E-Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 624 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 0 KB

Über den Autor

Steven Solomon is a journalist who has written for The New York Times, BusinessWeek, The Economist, Forbes, and Esquire, and has commented on NPR's Marketplace. He is also the author of The Confidence Game. Solomon lives in Washington, D.C.