A Journalist’s Last Dispatch from the Amazon
“How to Save the Amazon” confronts the complexity of the rainforest crisis—and still manages to inspire.
This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on COP30 When outsiders write about the Amazon, they tend to romanticize it. They go to the heart, not the liver, as Indigenous rights campaigner Helena Palmquist notes toward the end of How to Save the Amazon. With such a title, one might suspect the book indulges in that kind of romanticism. However, its main author, British journalist Dom Phillips, was perhaps too much of a reporter for that. He was determined the book would not be a tale of environmental catastrophe but rather highlight the people and ideas that contribute to...
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