Author(s): Thomas M. Kostigen

Environment

The relationship between the globe's crises and our everyday actions is becoming less and less clear despite the increased media and political attention on the environment. The flick of a light switch is linked to the polar ice caps melting. "The Sunday" newspaper is fundamentally connected to the disappearing rainforests. The seemingly insignificant things that we do have the power to alter the landscape in the battle to save the earth. There are living narratives of climate change that reveal the consequences of our everyday actions. In far away places such as China, India, South America, Africa, our choices are felt.And it's to those encampments of ruin that Kostigen insists we must visit to comprehend. Kostigen takes us face to face with the ramifications of environmental impropriety. Starting with Jerusalem, where we can see our history crumbling before our eyes, Kostigen then takes us to what well may be our future in Linfen, China, the most polluted city on the planet.