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A brief history of pollution /
Originally published in 1994, this book links the distant past with the urgent problems of today, taking the reader on a literary and scientific tour of global pollution from pre-history to the post-industrial age. Ancient problems such as lead poisoning in Rome and water pollution in Mesopotamia pr...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. A Brief History of Pollution; Soiling the Garden of Eden; Unsanitary Conditions; Pollution and the Plague; Dealing with Waste; Something in the Air; 2. The City as Source of Pollution; Spawning Cities; The Industrial Revolution; The Spread of Squalor; Taming North America; The Birth of Smog; 3. Why Care? Pollution, Nature and Ethics; Should the Polluter Pay?; Science, Environment and Romanticism; Reactions to Reality; 4. The First Consumer Revolution
- Climbing the Ladder of ConsumptionCreating the Demand; From Bike to Buick; Consumption and Population; 5. Water Pollution and Chemical Contamination; Not so Pure; From the River to the Sea; Oil and Plastics; Toxic Chemicals; 6. The Poisoned Atmosphere; Acid Rain and Air Pollution; A Climate of Change; Climate Change and Biodiversity; Radioactivity: The Unseen Killer; 7. An all Consuming Passion; The Consumer Class; The Death of Food; Packaging the Dream; The Dark Side of Suburbia; 8. Energy and Survival; Clean Energy?; A History of Excess; Transports of Delight; Dominion of the Air
- Energy and Equity9. Pollution in the Making: The Example of Asia; The March of Progress; Acid Rain in Asia; Dirty Water; The Chinese Dragon Breathes Fire; 10. The Politics of Pollution; Citizen Power; There Ought to be a Law Against it!; Towards the next Millenium; Notes and references; Index