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Chargement... Mother Country (1989)par Marilynne Robinson
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The world's largest source of radioactive contamination, Sellafield continues as an accident-prone, poorly maintained operation, polluting without genuine safety standards, winked at by international watchdogs, violating decency and common sense. The risk enlarges as countries permit the transport of both wastes and reconstituted materials by plane, by ship, by truck. "The greatest threat to the world," Robinson writes, is riot "a decision still to be made. . .the decision to engage in nuclear warfare. Sadly, the troth is quite otherwise. The earth has been under nuclear attack for almost half a century." Robinson reserves her few sanguine words for the final paragraph, enjoining others to recognize the menace, to name and confront "the grosser forms of evil" encountered here. A gravely unsettling book. Prix et récompenses
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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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