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Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic

Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic
By Marla Cone

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Traditionally thought of as the last great unspoiled territory on Earth, the Arctic is in reality home to some of the most contaminated people and animals on the planet. Awarded a major grant to conduct an exhaustive study of the deteriorating environment of the Arctic by the Pew Charitable Trusts (the first time Pew has given such a grant to a journalist), Los Angeles Times environmental reporter Marla Cone traveled across the Arctic, from Greenland to the Aleutian Islands, to find out why the Arctic is toxic.

Silent Snow is not only a scientific journey, but a personal one. Whether hunting giant bowhead whales with native Alaskans who are struggling to protect their livelihood, or tracking endangered polar bears in Norway, Cone reports with an insider's eye on the dangers of pollution to native peoples and ecosystems, how Arctic cultures are adapting to this pollution, and what solutions will prevent the crisis from getting worse.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #739943 in Books
  • Published on: 2006-01-12
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 256 pages

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This book changed my life5
I read this book when I was 19, it changed my life. I fell in love with this most beautiful man, who later was to become my spiritual master. This book is a jewel of insight, an intimate play of question and answer between the master and his disciples. Read it and be transformed.

Insightful, brilliant5
This book is an edited version of the "spontaneus discourses given by Osho in Lao Tzu House, Poona, India". All the fifteen chapters in " My Way" are replete with insightful statements and as a whole will lead to a very blissful life if followed.

It is ironical that the man who exhorted everyone to drop their egos and become desireless didn't follow his own advice. This is where Osho differed from the likes of Ramana Maharshi and Nisargadatta Maharaj. His driving ambition to start a new religion at any cost led to his downfall.

But we should still be very grateful to Osho (Rajneesh) for a countless number of brilliant discouses on Tantra, Taoism, Zen, and anything to do with self-awareness, and also to his "sanyasins" who had toiled so hard to edit his discourses for publication.

An eye-opening, frightening read evolves.5
The Arctic is thought of as the last unspoiled place on the planet; but mankind's influence is touching even this pristine wilderness and SILENT SNOW: THE SLOW POISONING OF THE ARCTIC comes from a top national environmental journalist who documents the degradation. Chapters survey new evidence of Arctic poisoning, its effects on ocean food webs, and why the Arctic people are among the most contaminated human beings on Earth. An eye-opening, frightening read evolves.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch