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America the poisoned : how deadly chemicals are destroying our environment, our wildlife, ourselves and--how we can survive!

Title: America the poisoned : how deadly chemicals are destroying our environment, our wildlife, ourselves and--how we can survive! / Lewis Regenstein.
Author: Regenstein, Lewis.
Publication: Washington, D.C. : Acropolis Books, ©1982.

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Description

414 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Documents toxic substances in use in our environment and discusses their effects on our enviroṇment.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Herbicides : America's war against itself -- Pesticides : feeding the insects, poisoning the people -- Toxic wastes : 80 million tons a year -- Contaminating the water : our nation's "most grievous error" -- Air pollution : 35 million Americans in danger -- Poisoning the planet : our export trade in death -- Our chemical heritage : cancer, sterility, and deformed children -- Tris : killing half a million children? -- PCB's : present in every living creature? -- Lindane : the deadly indoor pesticide -- DBCP : the poisoning of California -- Endrin : silent summer -- Toxaphene : 100 million pounds a year -- DDT : the silencer of spring -- Aldrin and dieldrin : part of us all -- Chlordane and heptachlor : with us from conception until death -- Epilogue : Crippling the health and environmental laws.

ISBN

0874914868
9780874914863

LCCN

82001813

OCLC

ocm08221496
8221496
SCSB-35883

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library