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Condition: clean copy. Content: The author traces the environmental consequences of five commodies: automobiles, gasoline, refrigerators, beef, and harp seals. In these histories we learn that America officials ignored warnings about the dangers of lead in gasoline in the 1920's; why China is now a leading producer of CFC-free refrigerators; and how activists were able to stop Canada's commercial seal hunt… Read more

Condition: clean copy. Content: For four hundred years, explorers, traders, and settlers plundered North American wildlife in an escalating rampage, but in the 20th century an incredible turnaround took place. Conservationists created wildlife sanctuaries, restored habitats, and imposed regulations on hunters and trappers. Over decades, they nursed many wild populations back to health. Then, after WWII, something happened that conservationists hadn't… Read more

Condition: clean copy. Content: With this eloquent and impassioned book, the author both biologist and poet, shoulders the legacy of Rachel Carson, producing a work about people and land, cancer, and the environment, that is as accessible and invaluable as 'Silent Spring'' - and potentially as historic. 374 pages, source notes, index.

A collection of 12 articles exploring environment and deveopment ideas. Biblography,Index, 226 pages.

Sound clean trade paper.