Environmental Crisis - Understanding the Value of Nature

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Mark Rowlands is Lecturer in Philosophy at University College, Cork, Ireland.

Report

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

Product details

• Authors: M Rowlands, M. Rowlands, Mark Rowlands
• Assisted by: Kenneth A Loparo (Editor), J Campling (Editor), Jo Campling (Editor), Kenneth A Loparo (Editor), Kenneth A. Loparo (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2000
• EAN: 9780333748961
• ISBN: 978-0-333-74896-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Weight: 331 g
• Illustrations: X, 192 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works