Ecocide in the USSR: health and nature under siege

1992; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 30; Issue: 03 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.30-1483

ISSN

1943-5975

Autores

Murray Feshbach, Alfred Friendly,

Tópico(s)

Transboundary Water Resource Management

Resumo

Part 1 Facing facts: shortened lives, needless deaths vicious synergy - pollution and disease Chernobyl - the Glasnost fallout from subjects to activists protest by the Volga onto the streets from protest to power beginnings of wisdom. Part 2 Birth of the future: the whip of necessity science subservient socialism versus the louse a duty to health the plan - agent of destruction false fronts and self-deception. Part 3 Harvests of neglect: as ye sow a stinking ruin ill fares the land contamination for mass consumption preference for poison back to (human) nature. Part 4 A sea of troubles: deaths at an early age resentment rising. Part 5 Dark, Satanic mills: the shroud of pollution Siberian wastes and the wastelands death traps in the rust belt no place to hide politics, economics and pollution. Part 6 Water torture: Conserve This Glorious Sea wasting away currents of contamination last resorts. Part 7 Plus Electrification rocks and hard places We Simply Squander Energy We Need a Propagandist Chernobyl - costs of cataclysm mind over matter coverup and controversy the wages of fear Letting the Chips Fly. Part 8 Crippled giant: sick call mayhem in uniform military medicine - an oxymoron? hoist by its own petard up in arms. Part 9 Gathering ills: environment and health losing ground drinking and dying new ills, old strategies short-changed opiates for the masses failing according to plan there ought to be a law. Part 10 Cradle to grave: siege conditions desperate remedies a woman's story motherhood and its discontents equal rights, unequal burdens handicapped healers unarmed, maybe dangerous prognosis guarded. Part 11 The people speak: greening around the edges ready for prime time brushfires at the grass roots fighting city hall all power to the Soviets! things fall apart. Part 12 A time to heal: environmental economics the prices of cleanup first things first Rx for health whence cometh my help.

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