Meltdown China Environment Crisis edition by Sean Gallagher Arts Photography eBooks
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How can you make sense of the enormous scale of China’s environmental problems? With a delightfully affable and knowledgeable personal guide. Through beautiful images and engaging storytelling, award-winning photojournalist Sean Gallagher takes readers on a tour through China to places both familiar – like big megalopolises – and hidden, such as ancient cities wiped off the map by desertification. Gallagher captures everything from the lifestyle of nomadic herders of Tibet and some of China’s iconic animals and landscapes before they may disappear forever. Four chapters—one each on wetlands, forests, desertification and the Tibetan Plateau—move you 10,000 miles through China, from delta to glacier. Multimedia features including maps and videos allow readers to can see China as Gallagher does – beautiful and endangered.
Kirkus Reviews "A sobering glimpse into China’s environmental degradation, matched with stirring photography of what’s threatened."
Meltdown China Environment Crisis edition by Sean Gallagher Arts Photography eBooks
Some criticized the book because it was not scientifically in depth, some because it did not call sufficient attention to the Chinese government's failure to maintain the environment of China. In both instances they failed to acknowledge the stated purpose of the book while expecting it to do something else. The book is for documentation of the situation. It is also highly doubtful the man would be allowed to stay in China if he wrote a scathing documentary of Chinese environmental failures. For what it is the book does a very good job.Product details
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Meltdown China Environment Crisis edition by Sean Gallagher Arts Photography eBooks Reviews
loved it!
China is home to 10% of the world's wetlands; however, half its coastal wetlands have been destroyed since the 1950s, and 30% of the wetlands at the Yangtze River headwaters have vanished over the past 40 years. Some studies have found nitrogen and heavy metals in large Chinese lakes at levels far over Chinese standards, and some of the species formerly there are no longer. Etc. etc.
Overall, very disappointing - non-quantitative and fails to explain the real impacts on humans.
It's an easy read, the author travels around in China, talks to the people in many desolate locations where you probably won't go yourself and has taken stunning pictures along the way.
We hear about terrifying deforestation, but we also hear about the many initiatives that are trying to prevent the emminent meltdown.
Not a good book. Only provide some photos and their simple and superficial description. No insightful analysis.
My personal opinion.
When I spent 2 years in China a friend gave me Jonathan Watts 'When a Billion Chinese Jump'. It was an huge eye-opener and sparked a strong interest in environmental problems in China. It probably also spoiled me because it will be hard for any other book on the same topic to impress me like Watts' publication did. Gallagher gives it a try and even though he needs to be complimented for drawing attention to this important issue - and there's little risk in buying a 2 USD book - I have to admit that I am very disappointed in what this publication has to offer.
Probably my biggest complaint is that 'Meltdown' is extremely superficial. Unlike Watts' thorough analysis Gallagher merely scrapes the surface of the complex issues of China's environmental crisis. In less than 700 'locations' - half of which are filled with pictures - he discusses 4 topics wetlands, forest, desertification and the Tibetan plateau. In these chapters he provides very sketchy information that lacks the depth of the analysis needed to discuss the complexity of the environmental problems. You are left with little more of an understanding about the problem than the fact that there is a problem. Considering the fact that the writer spent 7 years working in China I would have expected a bit more than this.
Gallagher is first and foremost a photographer and I have to say that he shoots some pretty amazing pictures. Unfortunately however, most of these do nothing to support the topic of environmental crisis. Again, the pictures in Watts' book shocked me to the core. Gallagher instead shows us beautiful landscapes and smiling people, as if there is really no crisis at all. You will be hard-pressed to find any pictures of pollution in this book and the picture that shows 'a large amount of trash' in a landscape doesn't even come close to the piles of dumped rubbish I have seen during my own travels in China.
The book claims to offer 'interactive content' which basically are links to Youtube videos, which mostly have the same content and pictures as you'll find in the book (and thereby make a handy alternative). Also, judging from the endnotes, in which Gallagher finds it necessary to define obvious terminology like 'oasis', 'desertification', 'plateau' and 'greenhouse' I wonder what level of intelligence he thinks his audience has.
All in all I find this a rather half-hearted attempt at discussing one the most important problems of our time and would urge anyone that is seriously interested in the topic to check out 'When a Billion Chinese Jump' instead.
Meltdown China's Environment Crisis shows through beautiful images and engaging storytelling the crisis China is facing. As China grows so do its environmental hazards do as well. Award-winning photojournalist Sean Gallagher guides the readers on a tour through China. I am glad I purchased this book and would definitely recommend this book.
Thank you for reading my review.
A stunning e-book, and one that takes advantages of the format. Great photography, powerful video, and words that really mean something. You'll be shocked by China's environmental crisis and wonder what comes next -- and how it could affect you in the future.
Although a picture is worth a thousand words, the words in this book could be fleshed out more. Gallagher travels all over China and could have told these stories in much more detail. Many segments are less stories than anecdotes. It's worth reading and experiencing, but it does leave you wanting more.
Some criticized the book because it was not scientifically in depth, some because it did not call sufficient attention to the Chinese government's failure to maintain the environment of China. In both instances they failed to acknowledge the stated purpose of the book while expecting it to do something else. The book is for documentation of the situation. It is also highly doubtful the man would be allowed to stay in China if he wrote a scathing documentary of Chinese environmental failures. For what it is the book does a very good job.
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