Adani, Following Its Dirty Footsteps: A Personal Story - Couverture souple

Simpson, Lindsay

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1925581470 ISBN 13 : 9781925581478

Editeur : Spinifex Press, 2018

Synopsis

From fishing villages in India to the tropics of North Queensland, the Adani company is building coal mines at the very time that people are demanding action on climate change. Why? Adani is planning to build Australia’s largest coal mine and the world’s largest coal terminal. Why, asks Lindsay Simpson, would an Australian Prime Minister, a State Premier and a handful of regional mayors back such a project, risking the future of the Great Barrier Reef and the vast underground water reservoirs in the Galilee Basin? Lindsay Simpson’s personal story reveals the truth behind this controversy. As a tourist operator in the Whitsunday Islands, she is determined to expose the contribution of coal mines to global warming, which is threatening the world’s largest living organism – the Great Barrier Reef – with extinction. With other activists, she travels from Adani’s Indian headquarters to Parliament House in Canberra to lobby politicians, demand answers, and question motivations.She investigates the power of the social movement, Stop Adani, which has captured the public imagination, and sheds light on the workings of the coal industry and its alliances with government. In this astute analysis Lindsay Simpson argues that while Adani might have gained the political will to build the mine, it has never gained the social will of the people. So will the people win this battle over a coal mine?

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À propos de l'auteur

Dr Lindsay Simpson was an investigative journalist with The Sydney Morning Herald from 1983 to 1995. She is the author and co-author of ten books, many in the true crime genre. In 2007, she was awarded the Crime Writer's Association Lifetime Achievement Award. Simpson's first book, co-authored with Sandra Harvey, Brothers in Arms was made into a six-part mini-series entitled Bikie Wars (released in 2012). Her most recent book, published in 2014, Where is Daniel? documented the disappearance and murder of 13-year Daniel Morcombe, Australia's largest manhunt. Simpson founded the journalism program at the University of Tasmania and the Bachelor of Multimedia Journalism at James Cook University in Queensland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Spinifex Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1925581470
• ISBN 13: 9781925581478
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 180
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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