KIVALINA: A CLIMATE CHANGE STORY
Book ID/图书代码： 11650011B46604
English Summary/英文概要： While corporate funded scientists continue their effort to spread doubt about global climate change, for one native village in Alaska the price of further denial could be the complete devastation of their homes and culture. Kivalina must be relocated to survive, but neither the oil giants nor the government have proven willing to take responsibility.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 人类在满足自己私欲的同时，也对整个环境和气候造成了不可估量的伤害。温室气体的排放，使得全球气候变暖，海岸线升高，越来越多的沿海城市濒临被淹没的危险。
位于美国阿拉斯加州的KIVALINA就是“受害者”之一。尽管科学家们对全球变暖问题所带来的影响依然持有疑虑，可是对于阿拉斯加州当地的一个小村庄而言，如果拯救计划再次遭到否决，那么他们的家园和文化将不复存在。为了求生，Kivalina村庄必须迁移。可是无论是石油巨头，还是政府机关，至今依然没有任何负责任的表态。(from XMM)
Awards/获奖情况：“Christine Shearer’s Kivalina: A Climate Change Story is a fast and bumpy ride that begins with the history of outrageous corporate deceptions through public relations and legal campaigns, continuing with building of the coal-and-oil empire to fuel progress in the United States, leading to the horrendous politics of climate crisis, and fi nally arriving at its destination, a ground-zero of climate refugee, Kivalina — an Inupiat community along the Chukchi Sea coast of arctic Alaska. I was angry when I turned the last page. I urge you to get a copy, read it, share the story, and join the now global climate justice movement.”---Subhankar Banerjee, photographer, writer, activist, and author of Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land
“This story is a tragedy, and not just because of what’s happening to the people of Kivalina. It’s a tragedy because it’s unnecessary, the product, as the author shows, of calculation, deception, manipulation, and greed in some of the biggest and richest companies on earth.”---Bill McKibben, author Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
“Shearer pulls no punches in this extraordinary account of one Alaskan village’s confrontation with the violence of climate change.... The casualties are adding up and they include public health, ecosystems, and our democracy. So where is the hope in all of this? It lies in the simple fact that the people of Kivalina fought back and struggled for a better world for themselves and for all of us.”---David N. Pellow, author, Resisting Global Toxics, board of directors, Greenpeace USA
“The climate catastrophe is real and growing, and this is the story of some of its first known victims, with many millions more to follow. This is an important tale of greed and propaganda, scientific corruption, and the bill coming due for our allowing a corporate elite to control and dictate our energy and environmental policies.”---John Stauber, founder, Center for Media and Democracy
“The Inupiat are not responsible for the greenhouse gases that cause climate change, and they are determined not to be its victims. ... They are fighting for our future.”---Al Gedicks, author, Resource Rebels
“Kivalina is a harbinger of what our failure to control our technology and our greed will be bringing to coastal communities and cities across the planet.”---Robert Gramling, coauthor, Blowout in the Gulf
“Shearer presents the human and environmental evidence of frustration and devastation of this ancient Inupiat Eskimo village in a detailed and compelling fashion.”---Harvard Ayers, professor emeritus, anthropology, Appalachian State University
About the Author/作者介绍： Christine Shearer是CoalSwarm以及加利福利亚大学社会纳米技术研究中心的研究员。她曾在KPFA 电台《晚间新闻》（Evening News）, 调查报告中心Center for Investigative Reporting，以及国家生态分析和综合中心工作。她的作品曾在众多学术和媒体出版物上发表，包括Race, Gender & Class, Conservation Letters, and NewsweekChristine Shearer is a writer, journalist, activist, and academic. She is the environment and ecology editor of EconomyWatch, and Managing Editor of the online progressive magazine Conducive. She is also a contributor to Coalswarm, part of the online corporate watch website Sourcewatch.
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