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We all know our planet is in crisis, and that it is largely our fault. But all too often the full picture of change is obstructed by dense data sets and particular catastrophes. Struggling with this obscurity in her role as an editor at Nature, Gaia Vince decided to travel the world and see for herself what life is really like for people on the frontline of this new reality. What she found was a number people doing the most extraordinary things.During her journey she finds a man who is making artificial glaciers in Nepal along with an individual who is painting mountains white to attract snowfall; take the electrified reefs of the Maldives; or the man who's making islands out of rubbish in the Caribbean. These are ordinary people who are solving severe crises in crazy, ingenious, effective ways.



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Gaia Vince

Gaia Vince is a science writer and broadcaster interested in the interplay between humans and the planetary environment. She has a chemistry degree and writes for newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian, The Times, Scientific American, New Scientist and Nature. She also writes and presents science programmes for radio and television. In 2015, she became the first woman to win outright the Royal Society Science Book of the Year Prize for her debut, ADVENTURES IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: A Journey To The Heart Of The Planet We Made. Her latest book, about human cultural evolution, is TRANSCENDENCE: How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty And Time. She currently lives in London, where she dreams of the tropics and blogs at WanderingGaia.com.



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