Tibet, Disrupted
How China is endangering entire ecosystems in Tibet and across Asia
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Publisher Description
This ephoto-book was Silver Award Winner at the Benjamin Franklin Digital Book Awards, California, USA. American author Alex Shoumatoff calls this book ‘one of the most important exposes and the most compelling pieces of photojournalism of our time.’ The ebook is a visual companion to Michael Buckley’s print book “Meltdown in Tibet”, published by Macmillan, NY. The photo ebook follows a similar chapter layout to the print book “Meltdown in Tibet” covering themes of rampant megadam construction and mining in Tibet and the impact of this on the downstream nations of Asia, including India and Vietnam.
Customer Reviews
Tibet, Disrupted
Tibetophile Michael Buckley has outdone himself, once again, with his first eBook: Tibet, Disrupted. This 326 page-turning litany of environmental and social crimes being committed by China on its own people, and against the victims in its downstream neighbouring countries is both exhaustive, and exhausting to explore. Buckley’s work is on par with that of writers Naomi Klein, Wade Davis and other socio/environmental luminaries who are particularly good at looking at the “big-picture” topics that beset our modern world. The photo-rich eBook is a knockout on my big HD Apple computer screen. Buckley encourages geography professors to screen the book for discussion, and gives lecturers permission to do just that in the book.
One of the burning questions Buckley asks is, "Who will take the climate/environmental refugees? The millions that will be displaced by reduced flows caused by scores of Chinese megadams built on five major rivers sourced in Tibet?" These megadams will impact food security bigtime because they block fish migration and the flow of silt, essential for agriculture.