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Let Live: A Bike Ride, Climate Change and the CIA
“Let Live” is a novel about climate change, and more. Through the eyes of an
environment journalist on a bike it deals with impact of the change on people affected by it. And it looks at powerful interests that don’t want people to know who is causing it.
Cycling through West and East Africa, the guy on a bike meets people who have been forced from their homes because of the climate change that Western countries are largely causing. He writes critical articles about the West’s failure to curb carbon emissions, and is especially damning of United States policy. The US, he points out, is invading the sovereignty of other countries. The CIA don’t like it, and a plot is hatched to remove him.
Drama and pathos combine with wit and humour to make this a powerful novel for our time. A novel can reveal truth in a profound way. Let Live is one such novel. Set in 2007, in the dying stages of the George W Bush presidency, the book is a strong challenge to Western government policies on climate change.
environment journalist on a bike it deals with impact of the change on people affected by it. And it looks at powerful interests that don’t want people to know who is causing it.
Cycling through West and East Africa, the guy on a bike meets people who have been forced from their homes because of the climate change that Western countries are largely causing. He writes critical articles about the West’s failure to curb carbon emissions, and is especially damning of United States policy. The US, he points out, is invading the sovereignty of other countries. The CIA don’t like it, and a plot is hatched to remove him.
Drama and pathos combine with wit and humour to make this a powerful novel for our time. A novel can reveal truth in a profound way. Let Live is one such novel. Set in 2007, in the dying stages of the George W Bush presidency, the book is a strong challenge to Western government policies on climate change.
200 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 8, 2011
4 people want to read
About the author
John Madeley
24 books13 followersJohn Madeley has been a writer and broadcaster specializing in Third World development and environmental issues for the past twenty years. From 1983 to 1998, he was Editor of the renowned magazine, International Agricultural Development. A contributor to leading British papers including the Observer, the Guardian, and the Financial Times, he has also written for many voluntary organizations including Christian Aid, CAFOD, the Catholic Institute for International Relations, the Panos Institute, and the Swedish-based Forum Syd. He is the author of several books:
* When Aid is No Help: How Projects Fail and How They Could Succeed
* Trade and the Poor: The Impact of International Trade on Developing Countries
* Land is Life: Land Reform and Sustainable Agriculture (co-editor)
* Big Business, Poor Peoples: The Impact of Transnational Corporations on the World's Poor
* Hungry for Trade: How the Poor Pay for Free Trade.
* When Aid is No Help: How Projects Fail and How They Could Succeed
* Trade and the Poor: The Impact of International Trade on Developing Countries
* Land is Life: Land Reform and Sustainable Agriculture (co-editor)
* Big Business, Poor Peoples: The Impact of Transnational Corporations on the World's Poor
* Hungry for Trade: How the Poor Pay for Free Trade.
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