Arctic Melting How Global Warming is Destroying One of the World's Largest Wilderness Areas
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Chad Kister
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In Arctic Melting, top scientists describe the alarming impacts of glaciers receding half a mile per year, pack ice hundreds of miles farther from the Arctic coast, permafrost melting and villages crumbling into the rising seas. As author Chad Kister reveals, even one of Alaska's most notorious anti-environmental Senator, Ted Stevens has declared that global warming is having massive impacts.
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Advance praise for Arctic Quest Odyssey Through a Threatened Wilderness Chad Kister
"I was grabbed from the first page. Few young whippersnappers can pull off an adventure this thrilling with such charming and refreshing naivetŽ and later write about it like an old pro. His masterful story telling ability riveted me to the book. But by the end I realized I had gained so much insight into the politics of oil exploration in this contended wilderness. I can't wait to see what's next from this new young writer." -Bernd Heinrich, author of The New York Times' bestseller, Ravens in Winter and A Year in the Maine Woods
"For most of us, the Arctic exists only as a place of the imagination, a kind of mythic realm of ice-bound ecological purity. Ironically, her destroyers (read: Big Oil) exploit our good-hearted naivete, doing their dirty business at the top of the world under the cover of ignorance. But now they've been outted, thanks to Chad Kister. By foot and raft, Kister traversed the North Slope, down wild rivers and across the caribou plains of ANWR to Gwich'in villages and the belching ruins of Prudhoe Bay. His chronicle of that journey, Arctic Quest, cleaves through the myth to reveal a terrain that is much more interesting than our wildest imaginations-and more threatened. This is travel writing in the spirit of Peter Mathiessen. The prose is as crisp as the land it describes and as urgent as the looming threats to its existence." -Jeffrey St. Clair, Coeditor CounterPunchauthor Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs and the Press
Arctic Quest is an account of one young man's willingness to take on Big Business and corporate destructive activities, on his own. It is also a remarkable account of individual survival under conditions of extreme adversity. I highly recommend it to anybody who is interested in the survival of the natural world. --Farley Mowat
Just in case you've heard some Republican congressman explain that the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a desolate wasteland, this book will remind you in the most vivid terms of its beauty and transforming power. And it will also serve as a damned good expose of the "clean" oil development at Prudhoe Bay. Oh, and it's a corking good adventure story to boot. --Bill McKibben, author Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age.
AUTHOR BIO Author of Arctic Quest: Odyssey Through a Threatened Wilderness, Chad Kister is a public speaker and environmental activist in southeast Ohio. Kister has been touring the U.S. speaking about the need to protect the Arctic Refuge.
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