One of the great strengths of Arctic Voices is that it shows how Alaska and the Arctic are tied to the places where most of us live. In this impassioned book; Banerjee shows a situation so serious that it has created a movement; where voices of resistance are gathering; are getting louder and louder. May his heartfelt efforts magnify them. The climate changes that are coming have hit soon and hard in the Arctic; and their consequences may be starkest there.ndash;Ian Frazier; The New York Review of BooksA pristine environment of ecological richness and biodiversity. Home to generations of indigenous people for thousands of years. The location of vast quantities of oil; natural gas and coal. Largely uninhabited and long at the margins of global affairs; in the last decade Arctic Alaska has quickly become the most contested land in recent US history. World-renowned photographer; writer; and activist Subhankar Banerjee brings together first-person narratives from more than thirty prominent activists; writers; and researchers who address issues of climate change; resource war; and human rights with stunning urgency and groundbreaking research. From Gwichin activist Sarah Jamess impassioned appeal; "We Are the Ones Who Have Everything to Lose;" during the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen in 2009 to an original piece by acclaimed historian Dan ONeill about his recent trips to the Yukon Flats fish camps; Arctic Voices is a window into a remarkable region.Other contributors include Seth Kantner; Velma Wallis; Nick Jans; Debbie Miller; Andri Snaer Magnason; George Schaller; George Archibald; Cindy Shogan; and Peter Matthiessen.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Great FindBy JonnyThis book is loaded with U.S. Civil Defense programs. providing a history and verious examples of building designs. Not alot of pictures but very informative.21 of 23 people found the following review helpful. More opinion than fact in some casesBy Carl H.While the book does contain some enjoyable design descriptions. background materials. and good illustrations. I was disappointed by what I saw as the authors frequent attempts to promote his own opinions about the fallout shelter and Civil Defense programs. rather than just inform. I was further troubled that some of his statements or conclusions seemed more like revisionist history rather than historical fact. Finally. the quote on the back cover that fallout shelters are a peculiar manifestation of the US response to the Cold War is flatly false. as the Soviet Union and their satellite states had a huge fallout shelter program that included hardened civilian shelters that surpassed US civilian shelters in terms of design and numbers: the Warsaw Pact nations built blast resistant civilian shelters with pre-installed lighting. bunks. water tanks. standby generators. and decon showers. where Americas largely unhardened civilian shelters had plastic bags holding water in waxed cardboard barrels and crude chemical toilet barrels. The author totally failed to touch on important aspects such as ventilation and heat load issues or the means to deal with them. such as PVKs (packaged ventilation kits). the single or tandem stationary-bicycle driven fans that were intended to ventilate shelter space.
