Humanity has the potential to preserve the earth for future generations or cause irreparable harm. For the first time here, environmental lawyer and activist Robert Emmet Hernan provides a comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of what happened at fifteen environmental disasters in ten countries across the globe.
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'...His style is readable and persuasive, his points not to be ignored.' - The Good Book Guide
'This Borrowed Earth: Lessons from Fifteen Environmental Disasters Around the World, powerfully depicts in simple, transparent prose, the lasting and wrenching impact of some of the major environmental disasters of the last century, which younger generations may only barely remember. But Mr. Hernan's book does much more. It reveals a striking similarity in the genesis of these disasters that can shed light on ways to prevent them in the future – in particular, the profit-driven development of production technologies with no heed to their health and environmental effects or the environmental fate of their products. One is convinced, after reading Mr. Hernan's book, that the only way to slow the rate of growth of devastating climate change is for governments around the world to assert control over our most basic technology – the production of energy in ways that can lift the world out of poverty without destroying it in the process.' - Barry Commoner, American biologist
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A piercing look at the worst environmental disasters of the 20th century with a foreword from environmental guru Bill McKibben
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By A. Bigoni
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Well, I've read this book in a very short time because it is written in a very good style. Moreover, this made me conscious about the main environmental disasters and their causes (money, negligence, corruption ...). I advise it to those who want to have a panorama of the main environmental disasters. My rate is 5/5 !
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7 Feb 2010
By James D. Morris
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Bob Hernan's book is a tremendously useful summation of fifteen of the worst environmental catastrophes of our time, along with their awful human toll. Clearly and gracefully written, it is transparent and accessible and would be a valuable teaching tool.
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21 Feb 2010
By Robert Emmet Hernan
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"This Borrowed Earth" is an amazing book and should be required reading in all classrooms. Described here are fifteen of the worst man-made disasters that have shaped and given urgency to the contemporary environmental movement. Each story is told with clarity and compassion. Hernan lets the facts speak for themselves but in a prose that is limpidly clear, almost hypnotic. Full of information about the causes of these disasters, the book also focuses on the human experiences around the events--often heartbreaking. But the stories of individual courage and achievement are also inspiring and stand in stark contrast to the tales of corporate ignorance and/or indifference. Each new generation should be made aware of this history; many of us born after the l970's are shockingly unfamiliar with some of these landmark crises. This is a book that will help future generations to avoid the mistakes of the past.
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By Joanna Isaak
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Robert Hernan's This Borrowed Earth is nothing if not timely. This survey of a number of the major environmental disasters of the last twenty years arrives at a time in which the global environmental situation has arguably become the major issue facing the world today. Hernan's book is a sobering and gripping narrative of a series of man-made environmental disasters, from Minimata to Chenobyl to Three Mile Island, the consequences of which were fatal to thousands of people. The record of evasions, self-excuses, and outright lying, practiced by the corporations and governments responsible for the disasters makes for disturbing reading, and a strong sense of the need for vigilance in the future. The book's subject matter is inherently dramatic, and is told in an appropriately minimalist style; the tragedies speak for themselves. A book that should receive wide readership, and a must read for anyone concerned about the state of the planet. -D. O'Connell
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