Trashing the Planet: How Science Can help Us deal With Acid Rain, Depletion of the Ozone, and Nuclear Waste (Among Other Things)

Ray, Dixy Lee with Lou Guzzo

ISBN 10: 0895265443 / ISBN 13: 9780895265449

Published by Regnery Gateway, 1990

About this Item

Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Fine Condition. Jacket unclipped, in archival protective cover. "--A common sense approach to the contentious issues where science and politics overlap and where environmental ism moves from well-meaning idealism to counterproductive eco-terrorism. Dr. Ray was a former governor of Washington, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, assistant secretary of state in the U.S. Bureau of Oceans, and long-time member of the Zoology faculty of the University of Washington. She writes with the simplicity of a journalist and the intellectual power of a professional scientist." . Dr. Ray exposes how little the public knows about the environment. She states that it is "-- our responsibility to be good stewards of the environment-- ". (from the jacket) 206 pages with Notes and Index. 9.25" x 6.25". . Regnery Gateway, Washington, D. C., 1990.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Trashing the Planet: How Science Can help Us deal With Acid Rain, Depletion of the Ozone, and Nuclear Waste (Among Other Things)
• Publisher: Regnery Gateway
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0895265443
• ISBN 13: 9780895265449
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Climate Change. Global Warming., "Environment, ...

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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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