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The invention of ecocide : agent orange, Vietnam, and the scientists who changed the way we think about the environment /
As the public increasingly questioned the war in Vietnam, a group of American scientists deeply concerned about the use of Agent Orange and other herbicides started a movement to ban what they called "ecocide." David Zierler traces this movement, starting in the 1940s, when weed killer was...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens, Ga. ; London :
University of Georgia Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- An etymology of ecocide
- Agent Orange before Vietnam
- Gadgets and guerrillas
- Herbicidal warfare
- Science, ethics, and dissent
- Surveying a catastrope
- Against protocol
- Conclusion: ecocide and international security.