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Trashing the planet : how science can help us deal with acid rain, depletion of the ozone, and nuclear waste (among other things)

Title
Trashing the planet : how science can help us deal with acid rain, depletion of the ozone, and nuclear waste (among other things) / Dixy Lee Ray and Lou Guzzo.
Author
Ray, Dixy Lee.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : Regnery Gateway ; Lanham, MD : Distributed by National Book Network, ©1990.

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Additional Authors
Guzzo, Louis R., 1919-
Description
xii, 206 pages; 23 cm
Summary
Examines environmental issues which threaten our planet.
Subject
  • Pollution
  • Environmental protection
  • Human ecology
  • Mass media and the environment
  • Communication in science
  • pollution
  • chemical pollution
  • environmental protection
  • human ecology
  • communication de masse > écologie humaine > environnement > protection > pollution
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-198) and index.
Contents
I. MAN, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- 1. Who speaks for science? -- 2. The good old days? -- 3. It works better if you plug it in -- II. SAVING THE PLANET -- 4. Greenhouse Earth -- 5. Acid rain -- 6. "Acid rain" for insects: pesticides -- 7. The Alar, Asbestos, PCB, and Dioxin scares -- III. ISSUES NUCLEAR -- 8. Radiation around us -- 9. Nuclear medicine -- 10. Power from the atom, the sun, and the wind -- 11. Nuclear waste -- IV. PARTING THOUGHTS -- 12. Environmentalism and the future.
ISBN
  • 0895265443
  • 9780895265449
LCCN
90008344
OCLC
  • ocm21337530
  • 21337530
  • SCSB-1899409
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library