Mother Country e-bog
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At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's cottage in the Lakes District; one child in sixty was dying from leukemia in the village closest to the plant. The central question of this eloquently impassioned book is: How can a country t...
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81,03 DKK
Forlag
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Udgivet
1 april 2011
Længde
272 sider
Genrer
Environmental science, engineering and technology
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781429944731
At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's cottage in the Lakes District; one child in sixty was dying from leukemia in the village closest to the plant. The central question of this eloquently impassioned book is: How can a country that we persist in calling a welfare state consciously risk the lives of its people for profit.Mother Country is a 1989 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.