Environmental Overkill: Whatever Happened to Common Sense?

Ray, Dixy Lee

ISBN 10: 0895265125 / ISBN 13: 9780895265128

Published by Gateway Books, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 1993

About this Item

260pp including index A common-sense approach to environmentalism.

Seller Inventory # 66786

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Environmental Overkill: Whatever Happened to Common Sense?
• Publisher: Gateway Books, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0895265125
• ISBN 13: 9780895265128
• Binding: Cloth Hardback
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nature
  • Political Science

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Synopsis

A balanced examination of the environmental crisis attempts to wade through the media hype and provide the public with the actual data surrounding such issues as air pollution, global warming, endangered species, acid rain, and ozone depletion.

About the Author

Dixy Lee Ray (1914-1994) was a marine biologist. In 1973 she was appointed by Richard Nixon to chair the US Atomic Energy Commission, and was the first and only woman to do so. She was elected governor of Washington in 1976.