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

Dixy Lee Ray And Lou Guzzo

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ISBN 10: 0895265443 ISBN 13: 9780895265449

Published by Gateway Books, Washington D. C., 1990

Language: English

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Title: Trashing the Planet How Science Can Help Us Deal with Acid Rain, Depletion of the Ozone, and the Soviet Threat Among Other Things
Publisher: Gateway Books, Washington D. C.
Publication Date: 1990
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0895265443
ISBN 13: 9780895265449
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
Condition: Good+
Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket

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Exposes how little the public actually knows about the environment

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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.

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