Fire and Ice: Soot, Solidarity, and Survival on the Roof of the World, by Jonathan Mingle
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High in the Himalayan valley of Zanskar in northwest India sits a village as isolated as the legendary Shangri-La. Long fed by runoff from glaciers and lofty snowfields, Kumik―a settlement of thirty nine mud brick homes―has survived and thrived in one of the world's most challenging settings for a thousand years. But now its people confront an existential threat: chronic, crippling drought, which leaves the village canal dry and threatens to end their ancient culture of farming and animal husbandry.
Fire and Ice weaves together the story of Kumik's inspiring response to this calamity with the story of black carbon. Black carbon from inefficient fires - the particulate residue that makes soot dark - is the second largest contributor to global warming after carbon dioxide. It's also a key ingredient of the air pollution that public health experts regard as humanity's greatest environmental health risk worldwide: soot-laden smoke from household hearth fires and outdoor sources combine to kill over seven million people around the world every year. Jonathan Mingle describes the joys and struggles of daily life in the Zanskar Valley, where villagers are buffeted by powerful environmental and economic forces, while also tracing black carbon's dark fingerprints outward from Kumik and around the world. Mingle investigates its impacts on snow, ice, and water from Mt. Everest to California, and the silent health epidemic it fuels from New York to New Delhi. Combining cultural history, detailed reportage, climate and energy science and dramatic storytelling, Fire and Ice is a profound examination of the global challenges of averting climate chaos and lifting billions out of energy poverty and water scarcity. Can Kumik's people come together to reinvent fire, harness what remains of their life-sustaining ice, and reinvigorate their traditions of solidarity, in time to save themselves? Can the rest of us rise to the same challenge? Fire and Ice connects these questions with the work of enterprising scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs and activists around the world, in a narrative that combines mythology, reason, humor, persistence, and hope in a race against a global clock.
Fire and Ice: Soot, Solidarity, and Survival on the Roof of the World, by Jonathan Mingle- Amazon Sales Rank: #335277 in Books
- Brand: Mingle, Jonathan
- Published on: 2015-03-24
- Released on: 2015-03-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.47" h x 1.52" w x 6.36" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 464 pages
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“Fire and Ice is top-notch on the ground reporting on one more piece of the global environmental puzzle--a particularly tragic piece, and one that we should work hard to solve for so many profound reasons.” ―Bill McKibben, author of Wandering Home
“Fire and Ice wonderfully captures the human face of the impact of traditional cooking fires and fuels on the lives of individuals, made vibrant in this environmental travelogue that encompasses and connects the lives of villagers in a remote Himalayan village, to scientists, political officials and policy makers stretching from New Delhi to startup dot.com companies to the negotiating chambers of the United Nations.” ―Daniel Kammen, Professor of Energy, University of California, Berkeley
“To the unfolding drama of climate change Jonathan Mingle brings something new to worry about -- black carbon, the tiny particles from a billion cooking fires that absorb the sun's heat and are melting the great glaciers in the Himalayas which regulate the water flow in the mighty rivers that feed half of Asia. Mingle's marvelous and original book, Fire and Ice, is no gloomy tale but a story of intellectual, scientific and human adventure among the Zanskaris on the roof of the world, where Mingle unfolds the beautiful simplicity of the problem, and of what to do about it.” ―Thomas Powers, author of The Killing of Crazy Horse and Heisenberg's War
“A searching, sobering, sometimes-scary look at an overlooked carrier of climate change…If you weren't worried about climate change before, this is just the book to kindle your angst. A promising debut.” ―Kirkus
“Fascinating…readers who might not have given much thought about a remote Indian village will understand its contemporary relevance.” ―Publishers Weekly
“An intriguing look at...the portrayal of the impact of carbon pollution on a small village and the worldwide ripples.” ―Booklist
“A compelling case for how we can clear our skies.” ―Mother Jones
“Fire and Ice is a lyrical tale about life in the coldest places at a time when the earth itself is warming. Author Jonathan Mingle takes the reader to a hearth in the high Himalaya, to join one community within one ancient culture as its citizens respond to climate change. The villagers' story, not to mention the soot from their cookstoves, resounds through the mountains and encircles the world.” ―Dava Sobel, author of Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter, and The Planets
About the Author
Jonathan Mingle's writing on the environment, climate and development has appeared in The New York Times, Slate, The Boston Globe, and other publications. He is a former Middlebury Fellow in Environmental Journalism, a recipient of the American Alpine Club's Zach Martin Breaking Barriers Award, and a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley's Energy and Resources Group. He lives in Vermont.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. A terrific, completely meaningful, absolutely fascinating and totally relevant book By Trudie Barreras This is another occasion when my Amazon Vine Queue hit the target dead center by offering me “Fire and Ice” by Jonathan Mingle. Talk about a terrific, completely meaningful, absolutely fascinating, and totally relevant book – this is it! Now I will admit, at times it seems a bit lengthy and redundant, and as I’ve said in other contexts, I find the proper names of individuals in the Himalaya that he quotes and describes both unpronounceable and confusing…but this, and his use of various Zanskari-Ladakhi words, as well as some Hindi (for which he thoughtfully provides a glossary) simply adds immediacy and authenticity.As Mingle says, he began by simply trying to figure out why the Zanskari village of Kumik, where he had friends, was drying up. He’d been asked to consult on the building of a solar heated home in the new location of that village of 40-some homes in a very arid region nearby which none-the-less held promise of more reliable water due to the confluence of two rivers. In the process of visiting the village homes, he experienced first-hand the incredible indoor “black carbon” (soot) pollution resulting from the burning of yak dung and kerosene in open fires or inefficient stoves that the people used for both heating and cooking. This led to a more extensive investigation of the problem of black carbon and other particulate pollution in general, which has the double whammy of causing millions of premature deaths per year (especially of infants and children via pneumonia and asthma) and greatly accelerating the melting of the glaciers such as the one which had previously provided the water for Kumik.The book is replete with statistics, but always presented in the midst of a fascinating first-person narrative discussion of Mingle’s own experiences in the village of Kumik and elsewhere. He quotes scientists and politicians, but in the context of personal engagement with these individuals. Throughout the highly evocative descriptions of these personal experiences, I found myself continuously “thinking back” to experiences of my own – for instance, the time an excursion to the racetrack in Birmingham, AL was totally ruined for me because the bus I was riding in spent about half-an-hour idling behind another bus before the excursion began. I became violently ill as a result of inhaling the diesel exhaust – that black carbon and other toxic fumes Mingle was describing so vividly.The author makes the point extremely persuasively: we will NOT solve the problems of global warming by discussing remote probabilities. We CAN solve them if we begin to deal on a case-by-case, region-by-region, person-by-person basis. We have done it before, with such things as the killing London Fog in 1952 leading to major reforms, or with California’s stringent restrictions on automobile exhaust emissions that has gone a long way towards “cleaning up” the skies in LA. Indeed, the second half of the book is full of positive interventions that are already in process, as well as a myriad of suggestions for further success. As he makes extremely clear, the same type of community solidarity that was necessary for the successful move from the original site of Kumik to its new location is the same thing that, expanded to a regional, national and global scale, will perhaps save human life on the entire planet. And it is indeed the emphasis on saving human life and preventing the extreme costs of poor health and resulting medical expenses in the present, that will have far more policy impact than nebulous discussion about the potential problems of sea-level rise somewhere in the future.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Lessons By wogan Jonathan Mingle writes a book that tries to explain the danger of black carbon- the soot, smoke and pollution from fires. He bases his concerns in a Himalayan village that has lost its water supply because of the receding of the glacier on the mountain above them.There are interesting sections on the lives of these villagers and of Wangchuk - an inventive man who has come up with many solutions to the problems that are caused by black carbon, fires for heating and cooking, poor construction and the quality of life of people. He bases many of his ideas on solar solutions to not only heat but also as a power source. The sun shines at this high altitude for most days and the use of this resource would cure many of the problems and help improve the quality of life.Mingle writes lyrically of Gods giving fire and the brown puddles of cloud, smoke and soot that cover much of India and the Asian region. We also learn of the existence, and yet acceptance of their life styles and difficulties by many of his acquaintances in this high Himalayan region. Resources are so thin there is not enough paint to finish the eyes of a Buddha.There are descriptions of the technicalities of fire, how and why soot is produced and of the thousands of people killed every year from the air pollution produced. Solutions are presented, many of which are overlooked and stymied by those in authority and by government bureaucracy.This is a fascinating story and description of the complications and solutions to a form of pollution most are not aware of. Those who are interested in that, climate change and its effects and just the existence of those in Himalayan villages would enjoy this book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Timly, important and interesting. By Zenpony When I think of global warming my first thought is of big cities, New York, LA, Detroit, Beijing, my second thought is of fast paced consumption, larger cars, trucks, steel mills, industrial countries in a race to be bigger and better. The last thing I would have ever thought of is Kumik , Zanskar on the roof of the world, a thousand year old village where people burn yak dung and kerosene to survive the brutal Himalayan winters. Who would dream that less than 40 families and their hand full of domestic animals would create enough soot to change the seasons, the amount of water available for drinking and planting and bring an end to a way of life that is centuries old.Johathan Mingle puts the facts and the stories directly in front of your face and makes you realize that everyone of us, on this Mother Earth, is responsible for ourselves and each other. This book does not read like a text book, but rather gives facts and figures as well as myths and religious beliefs of the indigenous people. As he points out, they live in an area where only the most loved family and friends or the most hated enemies will take the arduous trek to visit them. He has befriended some of the men of the village and is trying to save a way of life, not an easy task under any circumstances. Lots to think about in this book, and we should all read it and do our own parts to act quickly to make adjustments to our way of life. If we wait too long, there will be no choice.
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