You Are Here Cd: Exposing The Vital Link Between What We Do And What That Does To Our Planet

Product Description A passionate and heartfelt call to care.Bruce Feiler, New York Times bestselling author of Walking the Bible and Americas ProphetIn You Are Here, Thomas Kostigen, the New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Green Book, takes us to the most extreme environmental areas on the planet to show how what we do from the comfort of our own home affects people, places, and things everywhere. A timely, muchneeded alarm that recalls Al Gores An Inconvenient Truth combined with a compelling travel narrative reminiscent of Anthony Bourdain with straight ahead Anderson Cooperlike reporting, You Are Here is an intriguing and insightful account that deserves to be read by everyone (Mark Plotkin, Time Magazine Hero for the Planet). From Publishers Weekly It's not enough to abstractly consider being green, in the world today. Kostigen wants listeners to come face to face with the realistic outcomes of overexploitation of the world's resources. Traveling from cities where the pollution is so toxic people must always wear masks to a mileswide flotilla of trash in the Pacific Ocean or where the rainforest meets industrialization, Kostigen provides listeners with some real evidence of excessive and detrimental waste. His goals are earnest, but though he provides typical and practical advice that people can follow every day to address these issues, his intentions don't translate well into his prose. Kostigen reads his text clearly and smoothly, and his voice and tone are easy to follow and enjoy. However, given the gravitas of his ideas, his voice lacks the passion and emphasis to reinforce his words that one might expect. A HarperOne hardcover. (Oct.) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From the Back Cover In this groundbreaking book, the New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Green Book Thomas M. Kostigen reveals the vital missing link in today's environmental crisis: how we as individuals are connected to the most tenuous geography on the planet. Despite the recent prominence of 'green' issues in the news, the direct relationship between our actions and the earth is too often ignored. But the seemingly insignificant things we do every day have the power to literally alter the landscape in the ongoing battle to resuscitate the planet.There are living narratives of climate change that reveal the consequences of our everyday actions. You Are Here allows us to both comprehend and care about what's happening in these encampments of ruin. Kostigen shows us what may well be a glimpse of our future in Linfen City, China, one of the most polluted places on the planet. From a garbage patch twice the size of Texas in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, to the melting arctic ice shelf, to the flood zone that is Mumbai, India, to the dwindling rainforests of the Amazon, You Are Here describes the environmental crisis in a way we can feel, see, and touch. Kostigen presents us with opportunities for change and shows us how to take action on the spot, wherever we are. Combining groundbreaking research and pageturning frontline reporting, Kostigen pulls back the curtain on the most pressing and provocative issues of the day and in so doing we see the earth and our place on it in a brand new light. About the Author Thomas M. Kostigen is coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Green Book. He writes the Ethics Monitor column for Dow Jones MarketWatch and the Better Planet column and blog for Discover magazine. He lives in Santa Monica, California. From AudioFile Thomas Kostigen, coauthor of THE GREEN BOOK: THE EVERYDAY GUIDE TO SAVING THE PLANET ONE SIMPLE STEP AT A TIME, endeavors to bring home his point that the little things we do matter to our environment by visiting some of the most affected and endangered places on the planet. Kostigen narrates his own book in an earnest, easytounderstand voice. Overall, his narrati