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The polluters : the making of our chemically altered environment /
Benjamin Ross and Steven Amter here tell the story of how the chemical industry, abetted by a compliant government, set loose a plague of pollution that began in the years before and directly following World War II, a plague that still lingers today. The advent of new synthetic chemical products suc...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford [England] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | Benjamin Ross and Steven Amter here tell the story of how the chemical industry, abetted by a compliant government, set loose a plague of pollution that began in the years before and directly following World War II, a plague that still lingers today. The advent of new synthetic chemical products such as Nylon and DDT created new hazards just as the expansion and mechanization of industry exacerbated old ones. Environmental dangers well known today--smog, pesticides, lead, chlorinated solvents, asbestos, and even global warming--were already recognized in that era by chemists, engineers, doctor. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 223 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199739950 0199739951 9780199753208 0199753202 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |