Fire and ice : soot, solidarity, and survival on the roof of the world

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Label

Fire and ice : soot, solidarity, and survival on the roof of the world

Title remainder

soot, solidarity, and survival on the roof of the world

Statement of responsibility

Jonathan Mingle

Creator

• Mingle, Jonathan

Subject

• Atmospheric carbon dioxide -- Environmental aspects -- India | Kumik
• Biomass stoves -- India | Kumik
• Carbon dioxide mitigation -- India | Kumik
• Air -- Pollution -- India | Kumik
• Kumik (India) -- Climate
• SCIENCE / Environmental Science
• Soot -- Environmental aspects -- India | Kumik
• Himalaya Mountains Region -- Climate

Language

eng

Summary

"A thousand years ago in a Himalayan valley, the village of Kumik was founded. For generations, Kumik villagers survived by learning to cultivate their mountain terrain, drawing from the waters of the glacier and snows above the village. But now the glacier is almost gone, and Kumik is dying. Why? As Fire and Ice reveals, the culprit is black carbon, the most dangerous pollutant in the world and the least understood. Black carbon absorbs more heat per unit of mass in the atmosphere than greenhouse gases, and contributes as much to melting the glaciers of the Himalaya as carbon dioxide. It's also a major component of the household air pollution that causes 4.3 million deaths each year from respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses, and 3 million more from outdoor pollutants such as industrial exhaust. Black carbon threatens to overwhelm Kumik, unless the village can change the way it cooks, heats, farms and lives. In Fire and Ice, Jonathan Mingle weaves a dramatic narrative of one village's inspiring efforts to adapt to a rapidly changing environment, and a scientific detective tale about the impact of fire on every nation. Ranging from the Tibetan Plateau to New York and Washington, D.C., from Delhi and Kathmandu and China to northern California, Fire and Ice is a heroic exploration of our race to change the fate of our planet"--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

363.738

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

TD885.5.C3

LC item number

M56 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography