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Title: ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS
UNDERSTANDING THE VALUE OF NATURE
By: Mark Rowlands, Jo Campling (Editor)
Format: Hardback

List price: £97.00


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ISBN 10: 0333748964
ISBN 13: 9780333748961
Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
Pub. date: 5 June, 2000
Pages: 192
Description: What is the value of the natural world that would be lost if the environment were destroyed or seriously degraded? This is the central question of environmental ethics and the focus of this book.
Synopsis: 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.
Illustrations: biography
Publication: UK
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Returns: Returnable
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