Robert Emmet Hernan

This Borrowed Earth (eBook, ePUB)

Lessons from the Fifteen Worst Environmental Disasters around the World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: St. Martin's Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230105270
• Artikelnr.: 38159357

Autorenporträt

Robert Emmet Hernan, foreword by Bill McKibben, preface by Graham Nash

Inhaltsangabe

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