
Environmental Crisis
Understanding the Value of Nature
M. Rowlands(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 5. June 2000
Book
Hardback
X, 192 pages
978-0-333-74896-1 (ISBN)
Description
The worst chemical disaster ever could be happening right now. In India and Bangladesh between forty and eighty million people are at risk of consuming too much arsenic from well water that might have already caused one hundred thousand cancer cases and thousands of deaths. Many millions elsewhere in South-East Asia and South America may soon suffer a similar fate. Venomous Earth is the story of this tragedy: the geology, the biology, the politics and the history. It starts in Ancient Greece, touches down in today's North America and takes in William Morris, alchemy, farming, medicine, mining and a cosmetic that killed two popes.
Reviews / Votes
The Environmental Crisis is a work that every scholar of philosophy should be required to read, digest, and be provoked by.
-Environment
...[Rowland's] light and engaging writing style, his rich illustrations and frequent summaries suggest ...a great guide.
-Environmental Ethics
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Edition
2000 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
X, 192 p.
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
327 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-74896-1 (9780333748961)
DOI
10.1057/9780230286269
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08/2000
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Person
Mark Rowlands is Lecturer in Philosophy at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Content
The Devil's Water A Natural Disaster Fool's Gold The Verdant Assassin Healing Arsenic To Frustrate The Aim Of Justice Nothing Green Met The Eye The Extraordinarily Protracted Process Fighting Arsenic