本书是关于一片很特殊的热带雨林：太平洋海岸玉林。它从北加州一路延伸到阿拉斯加，而它的生存现在非常被关注。

作者经过多年的实地报道，写出这本歌颂一片世界上最珍贵以及美丽的雨林之一。读者能在书中了解碳汇背后的科学以及森林在气候暖化上提出的宝贵贡献。本书主要有两个故事线：2020年夏天在美国西部的史诗般森林大火，以及2021年11月在格拉斯哥的联合国气候变化大会。

作者们拉开窗帘，透漏了政府机构的政策如何严重削弱热带雨林储存碳的能力，揭示行业实践导致了大片生态系统的破坏资源。此外，使用环境正义的观点，这本书照亮了土著社区在热带雨林中生活了数千年，以及对森林政策的影响已经影响了他们的生活。

关于作者：

Paul Koberstein is the editor of Cascadia Times, which he co-founded in 1995. He was previously a staff writer for The Oregonian and for Willamette Week. In 2016 he won the Bruce Baer Award given annually to an Oregon journalist for excellence in investigative journalism and, in 2004, the John B. Oakes Award for the most distinguished environmental journalism in the United States. 

Jessica Applegate is managing editor and photographer for Cascadia Times. A lifelong environmental activist, she works with special needs young children and is a founding member of Eastside Portland Air Coalition, a grass roots group that spurred creation of statewide air toxics regulatory overhaul, Cleaner Air Oregon.

好评：

“An eloquent plea for saving one of North America’s last great forests.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction

“We’ve understood that the Amazon rainforest is crucial to the planet but, as this very fine book makes clear, it is no more important than the great temperate forests of the Pacific coast.”—Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature