Environmental Disasters: A Chronicle of Individual, Industrial, and Governmental Carelessness - Hardcover

Davis, Lee

9780816032655: Environmental Disasters: A Chronicle of Individual, Industrial, and Governmental Carelessness

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816032653 ISBN 13: 9780816032655

Publisher: Facts on File, 1998

Provides the details of environmental disasters throughout the world and throughout history, including oil spill disasters, nuclear disasters, and industrial accidents

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Although this is not the first book to discuss environmental disasters, it is one of the most depressing. What makes it different from others on the subject is that the disasters described here?from the total destruction of the rain forest in Madagascar to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?have been human-made. Unfortunately, the book is not organized usefully. Davis (Man-Made Catastrophes, Facts on File, 1993) groups disasters into collective and individual assaults against the environment; government misdeeds or inaction; commercial accidents, such as oil spills; nuclear attacks; and other wartime events. It's hard to figure out ahead of time into which category many of these disasters fall, and the descriptions of each vary in length and detail. However, all the accounts are moving, especially the description of the Union Carbide calamity in Bhopal, India. The book includes a selected bibliography, but it might have been better to place the references after each chapter. For both circulating and reference collections in college and public libraries.?Natalie Kupferberg, Arizona State Univ. West, Phoenix
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