Trashing the Planet : How Science Can Help Us Deal with Acid Rain, Depletion of the Ozone, and Nuclear Waste (Among Other Things) / Dixy Lee Ray and Lou Guzzo

Ray, Dixy Lee

ISBN 10: 0895265443 / ISBN 13: 9780895265449

Published by Washington, D. C. : Regnery Gateway ; Lanham, MD : Distributed By National Book Network, 1990

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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 206 pages; Contains some pen underlining, else fine. Subjects: Pollution. Human ecology. Mass media and the environment. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 58323

Bibliographic Details

Title: Trashing the Planet : How Science Can Help ...

Publisher: Washington, D. C. : Regnery Gateway ; Lanham, MD : Distributed By National Book Network

Publication Date: 1990

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

Exposes how little the public actually knows about the environment

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
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