Land on Fire, A: The Environmental Consequences of the Southeast Asian Boom

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The future of Earth's environment will be decided in Asia, home of 60 percent of the world's population and some of the world's fastest-growing economies. As an award-winning investigative journalist based in Bangkok, James David Fahn spent a decade grappling with the challenges facing the region's mega-cities, tropical forests, coastlines, and societies dashing toward modernity. In A Land on Fire, he shares his findings—the profound implications for global issues such as climate changes, the loss of biodiversity, and the greening of world trade. He explores Southeast Asia's environmental battles through the eyes of the people fighting them, and recounts his many adventures while covering them. Whether chasing down log smugglers along the Thai-Burmese border, exposing the dumping of toxic mercury into the Gulf of Thailand by multinational oil corporations, or covering a controversy surrounding the filming of the movie The Beach, Fahn provides unique insight into the relationship between sustainable develop­ment and democracy, the crippling impact of corruption, and the environmental challenges facing us all.