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Nothing is as elemental, as essential to human life, as the air we breathe. Yet around the world, in rich countries and poor ones, it is quietly poisoning us.

Air pollution prematurely kills seven million people every year, including more than one hundred thousand Americans. It is strongly linked to strokes, heart attacks, many kinds of cancer, dementia, and premature birth, among other ailments. In Choked, Beth Gardiner travels the world to tell the story of this modern-day plague, taking readers from the halls of power in Washington and the diesel-fogged London streets she walks with her daughter to Poland’s coal heartland and India’s gasping capital. In a gripping narrative that’s alive with powerful voices and personalities, she exposes the political decisions and economic forces that have kept so many of us breathing dirty air. This is a moving, up-close look at the human toll, where we meet the scientists who have transformed our understanding of pollution’s effects on the body and the ordinary people fighting for a cleaner future.

In the United States, air is far cleaner than it once was. But progress has failed to keep up with the science, which tells us that even today’s lower pollution levels are doing real damage. And as the Trump administration rips up the regulations that have brought us where we are, decades of gains are now at risk. Elsewhere, the problem is far worse, and choking nations like China are scrambling to replicate the achievements of an American agency—the EPA—that until recently was the envy of the world.

Clean air feels like a birthright. But it can disappear in a puff of smoke if the rules that protect it are unraveled. At home and around the world, it’s never been more important to understand how progress happened and what dangers might still be in store. Choked shows us that we hold the power to build a cleaner, healthier future: one in which breathing, life’s most basic function, no longer carries a hidden danger.

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April 26, 2019
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1721358005
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978-1721358007
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"[Joyce Bean's] staccato delivery lets listeners have the stark facts in no uncertain terms. Seven million people die annually around the world from the effects of air pollution on lungs and hearts that lead to strokes, dementia, and premature births…. Bean's rich performance gives these truths some serious clout." —AudioFile Magazine

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Beth Gardiner is an environmental journalist who has written for the New York Times, the Guardian, National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Time, among other publications. She is a former Associated Press writer. Both the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the Society of Environmental Journalists have awarded her grants to support her work. Gardiner is American but has lived and worked in badly polluted London since 2000.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Brilliance Audio; Unabridged edition (April 26, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1721358005
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1721358007
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches

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Beth Gardiner is an American journalist based in London. Her work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, Smithsonian, Time, and The Wall Street Journal. These days, she focuses mainly on stories about health, environment, and sustainability, but she’s written about everything from politics, education and feminism to food and the arts. Beth spent 10 years as a reporter for the Associated Press, based first in New York and then in London. Her AP assignments included traveling to Aceh, Indonesia, days after the tsunami there to cover its aftermath, and flying on Tony Blair’s plane to write about prime ministerial trips to China, India and Washington. She often provides analysis of U.S. news for British broadcasters including the BBC, Sky News, ITN and LBC radio, and has also appeared on MSNBC. Choked is her first book. Visit Beth's site: www.bethgardiner.com

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Chip Jacobs

A genre-busting environmental book worthy of your attention.

Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2019

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Beth Gardiner, an under-appreciated environmental writer whose previous work has appeared in The New York Times and The Guardian, among other outlets, could've taken the easy way out. As smog mutated from a lingering scourge in developed country into a global Grim Reaper killing upwards of 7 million people a year, Gardiner could've sat back in her home base of London to knit together secondary sources and a few interviews to produce her debut book. Fortunately, she took a dramatically different approach. She hit the road to visit pollution hotspots around the globe, landing in destinations from California to Beijing to New Delhi to Poland & more to collect data, report front-line anecdotes, and relay human stories of respiratory agony and hope. Not only did she pile up air miles in pursuit of her unique approach, she added a medial/epidemiological slant in ways I've never seen done heretofore in popular science books. Combine that with crystal-clear writing that focuses on individuals and admirable compassion for children's health as a mother herself, Gardiner has quietly created an ecological tour-du-force, part travelogue, part air pollution history, part search for blue skies. Whether you're a casual reader, professional environmentalist or college professor in need of important books for your curriculum, I highly recommend 'Choked.' Bravo, Beth -- Chip Jacobs, co-author of Smogtown and The People's Republic of Chemicals.

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Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2019

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This is an important subject, and the author does an excellent job of simplifying such a complicated topic so that an average reader can understand the big picture. This book does not complicate the topic by loading the reader down with a bunch of statistics that only scientists can decipher. The personal stories give us all something to relate to! Great Job Beth Gardiner

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Carol H. Boone

My Gift Book to Others This Year!

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2019

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I highly recommend this beautifully written book by Beth Gardiner. It is a "must read" for all who truly care about the future of our earth. Her research, her own stories, and those of others, that she includes make it personal. I shall definitely be giving copies as gifts to my daughters, grandchildren, and friends.

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We must protect the air we breath

Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2021

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I had no idea just how much even a small amount of air pollution can diminish our health.
CHOKED Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution by Beth Gardiner will first make you aware of how bad the problem is. Next, you’ll learn about health conditions that science can directly attribute to bad air and where on this planet, it is most devastating and why. Finally, she will provide some hope for the future with examples of where progress is being made, such as here in the United States.

As Beth Gardiner says at the end of her book . . . “From the moment of birth until our time reaches its end. Life. Breath. Air.”

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kbrownlee

A readable, urgent book

Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2019

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Choked travels the world examining the impact of air pollution and the choices that governments and people have made that have made dramatic impacts in the air we breathe, for good and for ill. A very readable book, that tells an important story of the dramatic impact that our air has on our health.

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Maggie Burnette Stogner, Executive Director, Center for Environmental Filmmaking

Highly recommend Choked!

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2020

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The book is for anyone who cares about our environment. It's well-written, insightful, and fascinating. A page-turner that reveals the personalities behind the scenes and the forces that brought us to where we are today. Beth Gardiner makes tough topics accessible and entertaining. Highly recommend!

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Kristian Lande

Great engaging and relevant stories

Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2019

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A very well written and enjoyable book. I very much appreciated the fact-based insights that Mrs. Gardiner seemlessly wove into a very intersting and timely narrative.

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David Bertram

Powerful story that affects all of us

Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2019

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A well-written account of one of the greatest threats to public health. Very glad I picked it up.

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