Book #6: The Fate of the Forests: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon (Updated Version) - by Suzanne B. Hecht

Trevor Jones 

9/28/15

• File Size: 2619 KB
• Print Length: 412 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: B00EDZ70BU
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press; Updated edition (January 15, 2011)
• Publication Date: January 15, 2011
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0226322734
• ISBN-13: 978-0226322735
• ASIN: B009PS2JEI

Professional Review: 
"Hecht's and Cockburn's historical viewpoint is illuminating.... They are to be congratulated."                

  -Nature

Customer Review: 

"In "The Fate of the Forest", independent journalists Susanna Hecht and Alexander Cockburn guide us deep into the Amazon rainforest, helping us to better understand the social, economic, ecological, and political dynamics of this threatened bioregion with its diverse tropical plant life, endangered species, and indigenous peoples. Along the way, we meet a myriad of environmental activists, union organizers, and indigenous leaders who are standing up bravely to the multinational corporations destroying the forest. If you care at all about the planet, it will sicken you to read about the clear-cutting of the forest for cattle ranches and soy plantations and how mining companies are contaminating the rivers, fish, and native peoples with mercury. Really, this is a great book, one that every environmentalist needs to read. I highly recommend it."

Why I chose this book: 

I chose this book because it describes the impact humans have had on the deforestation of the rainforest, which is a major part of humans impact on the environment. This book teaches the reader how the rainforest benifits humanity and how we are destroying it.