This Borrowed Earth: Lessons from the Fifteen Worst Environmental Disasters Around the World de Graham Nash

This Borrowed Earth: Lessons from the Fifteen Worst Environmental Disasters Around the World: Macmillan Science

Graham Nash Autor Robert Emmet Hernan Bill McKibben

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2010

Over the last century mankind has irrevocably damaged the environment through the unscrupulous greed of big business and our own willful ignorance. Here are the strikingly poignant accounts of disasters whose names live in infamy: Chernobyl, Bhopal, Exxon Valdez, Three Mile Island, Love Canal, Minamata and others. And with these, the extraordinary and inspirational stories of the countless men and women who fought bravely to protect the communities and environments at risk.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780230619838
ISBN-10: 0230619835
Pagini: 235
Ilustrații: Includes 25 b&w photos throughout
Dimensiuni: 167 x 234 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Palgrave MacMillan
Seria Macmillan Science

Locul publicării:Basingstoke, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Foreword by Bill McKibben
Introduction
Minamata, Japan, 1950s
London Fog, England, 1952
Windscale, England, 1957
Seveso, Italy, 1976
Love Canal, New York, 1978
Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, 1979
Times Beach, Missouri, 1982
Bhopal, India, 1984
Chernobyl, Ukraine, 1986
Rhine River, Switzerland, 1986
Prince William Sound, Alaska, 1989
Oil Spills and Fires, Kuwait, 1991
Dassen and Robben Islands, South Africa, 2000
Brazilian Rainforest, 20th Century
Global Climate Change, 20th Century
Environmental Organizations
Sources
Photo Credits
Acknowledgments

Recenzii

'...His style is readable and persuasive, his points not to be ignored.' - The Good Book Guide

'This Borrowed Earth: Lessons from Fifteen Environmental Disasters Around the World, powerfully depicts in simple, transparent prose, the lasting and wrenching impact of some of the major environmental disasters of the last century, which younger generations may only barely remember. But Mr. Hernan's book does much more. It reveals a striking similarity in the genesis of these disasters that can shed light on ways to prevent them in the future – in particular, the profit-driven development of production technologies with no heed to their health and environmental effects or the environmental fate of their products. One is convinced, after reading Mr. Hernan's book, that the only way to slow the rate of growth of devastating climate change is for governments around the world to assert control over our most basic technology – the production of energy in ways that can lift the world out of poverty without destroying it in the process.' - Barry Commoner, American biologist

Notă biografică

ROBERT EMMET HERNAN is senior counsel at the New York State Deptartment of Environmental Conservation, USA. He was the trial counsel for New York State in the infamous Love Canal Case. He lives in New York City.

BILL MCKIBBEN is the author of more than a dozen books, including The End of Nature, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age, and Deep Economy. A former staff writer for The New Yorker, he writes regularly for Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New York Review of Books, among other publications. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College and lives in Vermont with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, and their daughter.

GRAHAM NASH is the founding member of Crosby, Stills, Nash& Young, a published photographer, and an environmental activist.

Caracteristici

Environmental guru Bill McKibbon points out the collection's importance and how critical it is to remind future generations about the preciousness of our environment. There is also a Preface by Graham Nash
Chernobyl, Exxon Valdez, and Love Canal - these names of preventable disasters haunt the world, and serve as reminders of the tragedies caused by political negligence and economic greed. Hernan's accounts explain how the disasters transpired and the responses of governments and individuals. The collections shows how the tragedies were preventable and will sound the warning for future generations
Hernan shows how courageous individuals challenged the status quo and came together to clean up the environmental disasters. He points out the lessons that the tragedies hold for future generations - about vulnerability of the planet and necessarty vigilance
As a senior counsel at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Hernan's voice is known and well-regarded by a large community of environmental activists. As an environmental activist himself for the last 30 years, he has established contacts with many of the heavy-hitters in the field. Hernan will launch website around publication time and promote the book on You Tube

Descriere

Humanity has the potential to preserve the earth for future generations or cause irreparable harm. For the first time here, environmental lawyer and activist Robert Emmet Hernan provides a comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of what happened at fifteen environmental disasters in ten countries across the globe.

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