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SMOG: The Carbon Dividend - Softcover

Delucchi, Roberto

 
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Synopsis

Santiago no longer remembers what blue sky looks like.
For decades, a blanket of smog has buried the city under a gray haze that is more than just pollution — it is the symbol of a country that bet everything on carbon and forgot the cost of breathing. Raśl knows this better than anyone. He has spent years filing reports no one reads, fighting decrees designed to protect industry rather than people, watching a city slowly suffocate.
But now he has something different: a team of five, a graphene-based technology that could turn poisoned air into the most valuable economic asset of the century, and the belief that Santiago can once again see the Andes.
What they don't have is time. Or easy allies.
Smog: The Carbon Dividend is an urban environmental thriller that fuses the urgency of the climate crisis with the cold logic of economic power. Corporations race to buy the solution before it reaches the public; politicians trade clean air for influence; and a small team refuses to let the city keep drowning. The question is not whether the smog can be beaten. The question is: at what cost — and who benefits from keeping it there?
A story about what it takes to breathe in a country that hasn't yet decided if it wants to.

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