The polluters [[electronic resource] ] : the making of our chemically altered environment / / Benjamin Ross, Steven Amter

• Autore: Ross Benjamin
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.7380973
• Soggetto topico: Chemical industry - Environmental aspects - United States; Pollution - Environmental aspects - United States; Pollutants
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: AmterSteven
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; CHAPTER 1 The Sorcerer's Apprentices; PART I: Summoning the Spirits; PART II: Fetching a Flood; PART III: Holding Back the Deluge; Key to Archival Citations; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The polluters
• ISBN: 1-282-70281-5; 9786612702815; 0-19-975320-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458815603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II