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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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Details
- Additional Authors
- Guzzo, Louis R., 1919-
- Description
- xii, 206 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Examines environmental issues which threaten our planet.
- Subject
- 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