How to Save the Amazon

The Book of Trespass meets The Uninhabitable Earth The Amazon: home to 30 million people and a vibrant ecosystem of forests, rivers and towns full of life. Yet rising carbon emissions, fires and deforestation are driving the rainforest - a vital carbon sink with a crucial role in regulating climate across South America and the world - towards a 'tipping point', beyond which it will no longer produce enough rainfall to sustain itself, or our planet.Dom Phillips has reported extensively on the Amazon and the country's turbulent politics, news, environmental disasters, economy, its irrepressible people, abundant nature and richly diverse culture. He has seen at first hand the devastation wreaked upon the Amazon. But speaking to people with the ideas and passion to fight back, he is also witness to the many efforts being made to avert that destruction, from encouraging the farming of sustainable foods, to giving riverside communities the resources and knowledge to protect and maintain their unique ways of life.Dom Phillips journeys deep into the Amazon to show us the Earth's most wondrous place in all its vibrant, fragile, messy glory, and meets the vivid personalities among its millions of people fighting to sustain and protect it, as well as those who are destroying it. How to Save the Amazon is part travelogue, part guidebook out of environmental despair, taking us to the heart of this great wonder of our planet, showing us the myriad of peoples it sustains, and the many ways in which we can avert the collapse of this incredible ecosystem.