A brief history of pollution:
The story of how we have polluted our planet is told here for the first time in a way that links the distant past with the urgent problems of today. Adam Markham takes the reader on a literary and scientific tour of the world of pollution from pre-history to the post-industrial age. Ancient problems...
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| Zusammenfassung: | The story of how we have polluted our planet is told here for the first time in a way that links the distant past with the urgent problems of today. Adam Markham takes the reader on a literary and scientific tour of the world of pollution from pre-history to the post-industrial age. Ancient problems such as lead poisoning in Rome and water pollution in Mesopotamia provide the background to a discussion of modern catastrophes including the hole in the ozone layer, climate change and the global drinking water crisis. Along with consumerism, the development of cities, global population growth and untrammeled industrial expansion have taken their toil. Adam Markham brings together these seemingly disparate strands of history into a highly readable account, that tells us as much about the future of pollution as it does about the past. |
| Beschreibung: | XIV, 162 S. |
| ISBN: | 031212368X 0312123698 |
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Acknowledgements ix
Preface xi
1. A Brief History of Pollution 1
Soiling the Garden of Eden 1
Unsanitary Conditions 3
Pollution and the Plague 5
Dealing with Waste 6
Something in the Air 10
2. The City as Source of Pollution 12
Spawning Cities 12
The Industrial Revolution 13
The Spread of Squalor 15
Taming North America 17
The Birth of Smog 21
3. Why Care? Pollution, Nature and Ethics 24
Should the Polluter Pay? 24
Science, Environment and Romanticism 27
Reactions to Reality 30
4. The First Consumer Revolution 36
Climbing the Ladder of Consumption 36
Creating the Demand 39
From Bike to Buick 44
Consumption and Population 46
5. Water Pollution and Chemical Contamination 52
Not so Pure 52
From the River to the Sea 54
Oil and Plastics 59
Toxic Chemicals 61
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6. The Poisoned Atmosphere 66
Acid Rain and Air Pollution 66
A Climate of Change 70
Climate Change and Biodiversity 72
Radioactivity: The Unseen Killer 75
7. An all Consuming Passion 78
The Consumer Class 78
The Death of Food 83
Packaging the Dream 86
The Dark Side of Suburbia 89
8. Energy and Survival 92
Clean Energy? 92
A History of Excess 94
Transports of Delight 96
Dominion of the Air 100
Energy and Equity 105
9. Pollution in the Making: The Example of Asia 109
The March of Progress 109
Acid Rain in Asia 112
Dirty Water 114
The Chinese Dragon Breathes Fire 117
10. The Politics of Pollution 124
Citizen Power 124
There Ought to be a Law Against it! 131
Towards the next Millenium 137
Notes and references 144
Index 158
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