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" This borrowed earth : "
Robert Emmet Hernan ; foreword by Bill McKibben ; preface by Graham Nash.
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BL
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1036770
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b791140
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| Main Entry
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Hernan, Robert Emmet.
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| Title & Author
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This borrowed earth : : lessons from the fifteen worst environmental disasters around the world /\ Robert Emmet Hernan ; foreword by Bill McKibben ; preface by Graham Nash.
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2010.
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x, 235 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0230619835
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: 9780230619838
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Minamata, Japan, 1950s -- London, England, 1952 -- Windscale, England, 1957 -- Seveso, Italy, 1976 -- Love Canal, New York, 1978 -- Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, 1979 -- Times Beach, Missouri, 1982 -- Bhopal, India, 1984 -- Chernobyl, Ukraine, 1986 -- Rhine River, Switzerland, 1986 -- Prince William Sound, Alaska, 1989 -- Oil spills and fires of Kuwait, 1991 -- Dassen and Robben Islands, South Africa, 2000 -- Brazilian rainforest -- Global climate change.
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| Abstract
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This volume presents a summation of fifteen of the worst man-made catastrophes of modern times. The author reveals similarities between these disasters that can shed light on ways to prevent them in the future. He asserts that the only way to slow the rate of growth of devastating climate change is for governments around the world to assert control over the production of energy in ways that can lift the world out of poverty without destroying it in the process.
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"Over the last century mankind has irrevocably damaged the environment through the unscrupulous greed of big business and our own willful ignorance. Here are the accounts of disasters whose names live in infamy: Chernobyl, Bhopal, Exxon Valdez, Three Mile Island, Love Canal, Minamata, and others. And, with these, the inspirational stories of the countless men and women who fought bravely to protect the communities and environments at risk."--Jacket.
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Environmental disasters, Case studies.
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Environmental disasters.
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363.7
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GE146.H37 2010
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