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Chargement... Canaries on the Rim: Living Downwind in the Westpar Chip Ward
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A Grantsville librarian turned reluctant environmental activist fights the incineration and unauthorized airborne release of thousands of pounds of nerve agents and other toxic materials from the military munitions disposal area near Toole, Utah. Along the way he digs up a scary array of other ecological disasters happening in the Great Basin Desert. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieHaymarket Series (1999)
In the late 1970s Chip Ward and his wife left the Sleeping Rainbow Ranch in Capitol Reef National Park to raise their children in the classic small-town American setting of Grantsville, Utah. There, on the edge of the Great Basin Desert, disturbing tales of local sickness and death interrupted an idyllic life. A seven-year quest to understand a hidden history of ecocide followed. Canaries on the Rim is Ward's firsthand account of that quest and how lessons learned in the wilderness were later applied to building opposition to toxic waste disposal, chemical weapons incineration, industrial pollution, and nuclear waste storage. The secret holocaust that is unfolding along the toxic shadow of America's Great Basin Desert is grim, but Ward's colorful and often-humorous story is not. Canaries on the Rim is a warning and a call to arms, but it is also a compelling drama and a lively primer on environmental activism. If civil action took place in Edward Abbey's West, this is the book that would result. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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