Taking Action, Saving Lives: Our Duties to Protect Environmental and Public Health (Environmental Ethics and Science Policy) Pdf

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2011-04-15
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0199767246
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Taking Action, Saving Lives pdf
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In the United States alone, industrial and agricultural toxins account for about 60,000 avoidable cancer deaths annually. Pollution-related health costs to Americans are similarly staggering: billion a year from asthma, 1 billion from cardiovascular disease, and 0 billion from occupational disease and injury. Most troubling, children, the poor, and minorities bear the brunt of these health tragedies.
Why, asks Kristin Shrader-Frechette, has the government failed to protect us, and what can we do about it? In this book, at once brilliant and accessible, Shrader-Frechette reveals how politicians, campaign contributors, and lobbyists--and their power over media, advertising, and public relations--have conspired to cover up environmental disease and death. She also shows how science and regulators themselves are frequently "captured" by well-funded polluters and special interests. But most important, the author puts both the blame--and the solution--on the shoulders of ordinar Download Taking Action, Saving Lives for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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