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Borrowed earth, borrowed time: healing America's chemical wounds [Libro electrónico] / Glenn E. Schweitzer

Por: Schweitzer, Glenn E [autor/a].
Tipo de material: Libro en línea Libro en línea Series Editor: New York, New York, United States: Plenum Press, c1991Descripción: xvi, 298 páginas ; 22 centímetros.ISBN: 030643766X; 9780306437663 (Print); 9781489961402 (Online).Tema(s): Pollution -- Environmental aspects -- United States | Environmental protection -- United States | Industries -- Environmental aspects -- United StatesNota de acceso: Disponible para usuarios de ECOSUR con su clave de acceso Nota de bibliografía: Incluye bibliografía e índice: páginas 281-288 Número de sistema: 55608Contenidos:Mostrar Resumen:
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The author, director of international affairs at the National Academy of Sciences, served with the Environmental Protection Agency as a front-line adviser at Three Mile Island (Pa.), Love Canal (N.Y.) and Times Beach (Mo.). Here, Schweitzer reviews efforts from 1973 to 1990 to control hazardous chemicals, paying special attention to protecting human health. He discusses risk assessment, economic interests, fragmented policies and goals, and points out that the extent of toxic chemicals in the environment remains unknown. Critical of the EPA's adversarial legal processes, Schweitzer believes that industry should be at the center of solving the pollution problem and should be rewarded for efforts in that direction. He also censures the ``timidity'' of this and past administrations in taking steps to reduce carbon dioxide. Schweitzer calls for the U.S. to set an example in energy conservation and pollution control, offering practical suggestions for consumers and producers. This is a thoughtful survey of work accomplished and goals yet to be met.

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Incluye bibliografía e índice: páginas 281-288

1. Toxic chemicals move to center stage.. 2. Controlling 3000 chemicals.. 3. The uncertainty of risk but the reality of cost.. 4. Explaining risks to an aroused public.. 5. Cleaning up the wastes of an industrial economy.. 6. The states begin to take charge.. 7. The greening of industry.. 8. Exceeding the absorptive limits of the global commons.. 9. The power and limitations of science and technology.. 10. Living with toxic risks.. Index

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The author, director of international affairs at the National Academy of Sciences, served with the Environmental Protection Agency as a front-line adviser at Three Mile Island (Pa.), Love Canal (N.Y.) and Times Beach (Mo.). Here, Schweitzer reviews efforts from 1973 to 1990 to control hazardous chemicals, paying special attention to protecting human health. He discusses risk assessment, economic interests, fragmented policies and goals, and points out that the extent of toxic chemicals in the environment remains unknown. Critical of the EPA's adversarial legal processes, Schweitzer believes that industry should be at the center of solving the pollution problem and should be rewarded for efforts in that direction. He also censures the ``timidity'' of this and past administrations in taking steps to reduce carbon dioxide. Schweitzer calls for the U.S. to set an example in energy conservation and pollution control, offering practical suggestions for consumers and producers. This is a thoughtful survey of work accomplished and goals yet to be met. eng

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