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Bezig met laden... When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution (2002)door Devra Davis
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I found this more depressing than inspirational, but the stories of the benevolent environmental scientists battling the evil industries and governments were interesting. ( ) A shocking narrative of cover-ups by private industry to delay our scientific understanding of health effects of lead, air pollution, cancer-causing agents, global warming and other environmental issues. Davis does a nice job describing her major public health heros including Mary Amdur, Herbert Needleman, Lester Lave, and others. She is motivated by these individuals in her work as an epidemiologist and by her own personal experience as a resident of Donora, Pennsylvania during the killer fog of the 1950s. As a Jewish woman she also takes an important lesson from the Holocaust, that the dead communicate an important lesson to the living. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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In When Smoke Ran Like Water, the world-renowned epidemiologist Devra Davis confronts the public triumphs and private failures of her lifelong battle against environmental pollution. She documents the shocking toll of a public-health disaster-300,000 deaths a year in the U.S. and Europe from the effects of pollution-and asks why we remain silent. For Davis, the issue is personal: Pollution is what killed many in her family and forced some of the others, survivors of the 1948 smog emergency in Donora, Pennsylvania, to live out their lives with impaired health. She describes that episode and also makes startling revelations about how the deaths from the London smog of 1952 were falsely attributed to influenza; how the oil companies and auto manufacturers fought for decades to keep lead in gasoline, while knowing it caused brain damage; and many other battles. When Smoke Ran Like Water makes a devastating case for change. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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