Brown Agenda
Publisher: Santa Monica Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781595808202
Subjects: Hazardous waste sites; Infrastructure; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Hazardous waste site remediation; Travel; Environmental Science (see also Chemistry; General; Environmental); SCIENCE; Environmentalists; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Pollution
Description: Pollution is the single largest cause of death in the developing world. One in seven people in low- and middle-income countries die as a result of it. Simply put, pollution is now the world's most prevalent health risk. And yet, while most everyone has heard about going green," few are aware of the more dire and sinister brown" pollution places where man-made toxic pollutants have taken root and spread. Brown sites poison millions of people every year, causing needless suffering and death. After witnessing several brown sites firsthand and meeting families trapped by poverty in these toxic hot.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Part One: A Very Unlikely Blacksmith; Chapter One: Two Roads Diverged in a Wood; Chapter Two: Up the River to Find Its Source; Chapter Three: How to Plant a Great Forest; Chapter Four: Brown Is Just as Important as Green; Part Two: The Top 10 Pollutants Threatening Planet Earth; Chapter Five: Cities of the Damned; Chapter Six: Cold War Killers; Chapter Seven: Miners Big and Small; Chapter Eight: Coffins Filled with Pesticides; Chapter Nine: A Tale of Two Huaxis; Chapter Ten: Dark Clouds on the Horizon.; title: Chapter Eleven: The Silent Killer in Household KitchensChapter Twelve: The Shackle of Sewage; Chapter Thirteen: Atomic Toxins; Chapter Fourteen: The Scourge of Hexavalent Chromium; Part Three: The Blacksmith in You; Chapter Fifteen: Spread a Message, Change the World; For More Information; Acknowledgments; Photo Credits; About the Authors.