Trashing the Planet: How Science Can Help Us Deal with Acid Rain, Depletion of the Ozone, and Nuclear Waste (among Other Things), Dixy Lee Ray, with Lou Guzzo
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Trashing the Planet: How Science Can Help Us Deal with Acid Rain, Depletion of the Ozone, and Nuclear Waste (among Other Things)

Author: Dixy Lee Ray, with Lou Guzzo

Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach

Unabridged: 5 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Published: 11/01/2011

Genre: Science - Environmental Science

Synopsis

Trashing the Planet is the one book you need to get a commonsense grasp on the contentious issues of environmentalism, where science and politics overlap and wellmeaning idealism turns to counterproductive ecoterrorism. Dixy Lee Ray, a marine biologist and former chair of the Atomic Energy Commission, calls for environmentalists to regain a sense of perspective and not let their ardor carry them into the realm of noble lies. Dr. Ray exposes how little the public knows about the environment, how piddling are mans influences upon itvolcanoes shoot more pollutants into the atmosphere than do all of mans industrial activitiesand how complex are the interactions of natural phenomena. Reminding us that a welltended garden is better than a neglected woodlot, Trashing the Planet is a breath of fresh air in the current debate dominated by rhetorical extremism.

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