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Książka Killing Me Softly Jack Smith

Killing Me Softly

Toxic Waste, Corporate Profit, and the Struggle for Environmental Justice

Autor: Jack Smith
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Miękka
Wydawca: Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Dostępność: 50 % szansa
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94.30 zł
The political economy of toxic waste was summed up by Lawrence Summers--then chief economist at the...

Informacje o książce

Autor
Jack Smith
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Miękka
Data wydania
2003
strony
176
EAN
9781583670835
ISBN
9781583670835
Enbook ID
06253273
Wydawca
Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Waga
227
Wymiary
159 x 228 x 19

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The political economy of toxic waste was summed up by Lawrence Summers--then chief economist at the World Bank, later U.S. Treasury Secretary--in his notorious claim that poor people live in environments that are, from an economic point of view, not sufficiently polluted. The toxic waste industry came to prominence in the United States after 1945. In its ceaseless search for profit, it now routinely endangers the health of people around the world and the planet itself. Smith and Girdner's Killing Me Softly examines the growth of the toxic waste industry and the economic logic behind its expansion. It gives a hard-hitting account of the damage it has done throughout the United States. It focuses in particular on the struggle of the people of Mercer County, Missouri, against the plans of Amoco Waste-Tech to establish a huge toxic waste landfill in the county. It shows how the persistence of ordinary people in a poor and politically marginalized area could prevail against the prediations of corporate power. Although race and ethnicity play a crucial role in deciding which communities are targeted for toxic waste dumps, Smith and Girdner argue that the critical cleavage within the United States and globally is that of class. The struggle for environmental justice has an important role to play in empowering poor communities and bringing them into a larger movement for social justice.

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