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Touring the Climate Crisis

Saving the Earth Around the World

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Osseily Hanna invites readers to join him on his 6-year journey across 32 countries to hear from the people fighting climate change locally, and what they are doing to beat it.

InTouring the Climate Crisis:Saving the Earth Around the World, Osseily Hanna documents his journey to explore how the climate is changing and affecting people in both the Global North and Global South.That journey took him across five continents over the course of six years and felt similar to walking along a tightrope: on one side he witnessed death, destruction, and destitution, while on the other he saw the capacity of the human spirit to overcome seemingly impossible obstacles. From gold miners in South Africa and a nuclear bomb survivor in Hiroshima, to the diversity and beauty of bees in Germany and Uganda, and part of the Atlantic forest that was brought back to life in Brazil, Hanna's journey is one that seeks to unravel the beauty and capacity of both the natural world and the human spirit.

As Hanna discovers, the duality of life coexisting with death, and hope sprouting from fear in a world whose climate and future are changing more rapidly than ever before, become the drivers of his inspiration and motivation to push further still, and relay the urgency of the situation our world today faces. A travelogue of the courageous work done by people who are fighting climate change as well as the factors that are causing it, Touring the Climate Crisis breaks down issues such as deforestation, mining, and industrial agricultural processes and includes the author's own photography from his journey around the world.

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      March 1, 2021
      Average global temperatures rise while polar ice caps melt, sea levels ascend, wildfires rage, and animal species vanish. In his six-year trek around the globe, Hanna visits 32 countries, searching for solutions to the climate crisis. He interviews environmental activists and people affected by climate change. Hanna believes humans are pursuing a "path of self-inflicted extinction," emphasizing pollution, famine, water shortage, a growing world population, epidemics, deforestation, and the squandering of resources. Consider that 88-million tons of food in the European Union are wasted yearly, yet many people there go hungry. Social and economic inequality are linked to climate change. In 2019, there were 26 million refugees and 79.5 million displaced people worldwide. He reviews useful remedies, including solar power, wind energy, ecological farming, and hydroelectric power. Hanna's descriptions of our damaged planet are frequently grief-stricken: "stumps of amputated chargrilled trees" in Mexico, miners in South Africa with "battered bodies and crushed souls." Science, courage, resoluteness, and empathy must lead the charge against climate catastrophe. Time is not on our side.

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