Adani, Following Its Dirty Footsteps: A Personal Story
From fishing villages on the Gujarat coastline to Adani’s power plant in Mundra and the company’s headquarters in Ahmedabad, Lindsay Simpson’s personal story tracks how the Adani Group managed to woo Australian governments into approving Australia’s largest coal mine in the Galilee Basin and port expansion in a zone of great ecological sensitivity.
Why would an Australian Prime Minister, a State Premier and a handful of regional mayors back such a project, risking the future of the Great Barrier Reef and threatening Australia’s vast precious source of underground water – the Great Artesian Basin? And what of the consequences for greenhouse gas emissions if other proposed mines in the Galilee Basin go ahead?
Why is there a single-minded pursuit of the mining of coal when we are running out of time to do something useful about climate change? As a tourism operator in the Whitsundays Lindsay Simpson, investigative journalist, former academic and author, is determined to expose the contribution of coal mines to global warming, which is threatening the world’s largest living organism – the Great Barrier Reef – with extinction.
With other activists, she travels from Adani’s Indian headquarters in Gujarat to Parliament House in Canberra to lobby politicians, demand answers and question motivations. She also documents the power of the social movement, Stop Adani, which has captured the public imagination.
In an astute analysis of this ongoing environmental battle, the biggest since the Franklin Dam in the 1980s, Lindsay Simpson argues that while Adani might have gained the backing of politicians, it has not won over the Australian people.
This is an important book for every citizen concerned about dirty coal and climate change, the globalisation of corruption and the destruction of our democracies, from India to Australia. It tells the global story of how a handful of billionaires are using politicians to make limitless money while they destroy the planet, people's lives, and our common future.
—Dr Vandana Shiva, author of Making Peace with the Earth, Recipient of the Sydney Peace Prize and the Right Livelihood Award
2018 | ISBN 9781925581478 | Paperback | 180 x 135 mm | 266 pp
From fishing villages on the Gujarat coastline to Adani’s power plant in Mundra and the company’s headquarters in Ahmedabad, Lindsay Simpson’s personal story tracks how the Adani Group managed to woo Australian governments into approving Australia’s largest coal mine in the Galilee Basin and port expansion in a zone of great ecological sensitivity.
Why would an Australian Prime Minister, a State Premier and a handful of regional mayors back such a project, risking the future of the Great Barrier Reef and threatening Australia’s vast precious source of underground water – the Great Artesian Basin? And what of the consequences for greenhouse gas emissions if other proposed mines in the Galilee Basin go ahead?
Why is there a single-minded pursuit of the mining of coal when we are running out of time to do something useful about climate change? As a tourism operator in the Whitsundays Lindsay Simpson, investigative journalist, former academic and author, is determined to expose the contribution of coal mines to global warming, which is threatening the world’s largest living organism – the Great Barrier Reef – with extinction.
With other activists, she travels from Adani’s Indian headquarters in Gujarat to Parliament House in Canberra to lobby politicians, demand answers and question motivations. She also documents the power of the social movement, Stop Adani, which has captured the public imagination.
In an astute analysis of this ongoing environmental battle, the biggest since the Franklin Dam in the 1980s, Lindsay Simpson argues that while Adani might have gained the backing of politicians, it has not won over the Australian people.
This is an important book for every citizen concerned about dirty coal and climate change, the globalisation of corruption and the destruction of our democracies, from India to Australia. It tells the global story of how a handful of billionaires are using politicians to make limitless money while they destroy the planet, people's lives, and our common future.
—Dr Vandana Shiva, author of Making Peace with the Earth, Recipient of the Sydney Peace Prize and the Right Livelihood Award
2018 | ISBN 9781925581478 | Paperback | 180 x 135 mm | 266 pp
From fishing villages on the Gujarat coastline to Adani’s power plant in Mundra and the company’s headquarters in Ahmedabad, Lindsay Simpson’s personal story tracks how the Adani Group managed to woo Australian governments into approving Australia’s largest coal mine in the Galilee Basin and port expansion in a zone of great ecological sensitivity.
Why would an Australian Prime Minister, a State Premier and a handful of regional mayors back such a project, risking the future of the Great Barrier Reef and threatening Australia’s vast precious source of underground water – the Great Artesian Basin? And what of the consequences for greenhouse gas emissions if other proposed mines in the Galilee Basin go ahead?
Why is there a single-minded pursuit of the mining of coal when we are running out of time to do something useful about climate change? As a tourism operator in the Whitsundays Lindsay Simpson, investigative journalist, former academic and author, is determined to expose the contribution of coal mines to global warming, which is threatening the world’s largest living organism – the Great Barrier Reef – with extinction.
With other activists, she travels from Adani’s Indian headquarters in Gujarat to Parliament House in Canberra to lobby politicians, demand answers and question motivations. She also documents the power of the social movement, Stop Adani, which has captured the public imagination.
In an astute analysis of this ongoing environmental battle, the biggest since the Franklin Dam in the 1980s, Lindsay Simpson argues that while Adani might have gained the backing of politicians, it has not won over the Australian people.
This is an important book for every citizen concerned about dirty coal and climate change, the globalisation of corruption and the destruction of our democracies, from India to Australia. It tells the global story of how a handful of billionaires are using politicians to make limitless money while they destroy the planet, people's lives, and our common future.
—Dr Vandana Shiva, author of Making Peace with the Earth, Recipient of the Sydney Peace Prize and the Right Livelihood Award
2018 | ISBN 9781925581478 | Paperback | 180 x 135 mm | 266 pp
Awards
Winner, Queensland Literary Award, Courier Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award 2019
Reviews
Meticulously researched and passionately written, the book presents the reader with uncomfortable and problematic facts about the Adani Group and its undertakings.
Simpson presents the hard facts about Adani. Apparent from the very beginning of the book, the facts are indeed dirty—filthy, even.
Lindsay Simpson presents a confronting insight into current struggles against climate change, not only in Australia but the whole world. Adani, Following Its Dirty Footsteps: A Personal Story raises questions about the power of the individual and entire communities to make a difference: ‘At the last moment my concerns evaporate. It seems churlish to have been considering not participating. I am overwhelmed by the importance of what we are here to do.’
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—Angela Wauchop, Other Terrain
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