"I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasi--it\'s a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by the melting of the loss of the glaciers at its source to global warming.
As Steven Solomon makes clear, the same is true the world over; this volume will give you the background to understand the forces that will drive much of 21st century history." --Bill McKibben.
Four hundred million people depend on it, and there\'s no backup plan. "I read this wide-ranging and thoughtful book while sitting on the banks of the Ganges near Varanasi--it\'s a river already badly polluted, and now threatened by the melting of the loss of the glaciers at its source to global warming
