Trashing the Planet: How Science Can Help Us Deal With Acid Rain, Depletion of the Ozone, and the Soviet Threat Among Other Things - Hardcover

Dixy Lee Ray; Lou Guzzo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0895265443 ISBN 13: 9780895265449

Publisher: Gateway Books, 1990

Synopsis

Exposes how little the public actually knows about the environment

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Reviews

Some of the authors' major premises are that nuclear power is a safe and cheap source of energy; that acid rain is a vastly exaggerated problem; that chemical pesticides are not as dangerous as they have been made out to be; and that worry over the ozone hole is just an environmental scare tactic. Ray, a marine biologist, former chair of the Atomic Energy Commission, and Washington's governor when Mount St. Helens erupted, has a long history of offending conservationists, and most of this book, written with Guzzo, a writer and adviser to Ray during her governorship, is a recitation of statistics and research studies that prove her points. This recitation makes the book tedious, and it is troubling that there are no footnotes or bibliography. A researcher could spend weeks trying to search out the studies mentioned. Nevertheless, libraries may want this as an alternative to the growing mass of green literature.
- Sue McKimm, Cuya hoga Cty. P.L., Cleveland
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gateway Books
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0895265443
• ISBN 13: 9780895265449
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272