Synopsis
This work offers an assessment of environmental damage caused by military activity. It demonstrates how the space programme, "Star Wars" research and electromagnetic weapons have destabilized the natural balance of the Earth's ecosystem, causing widespread devastation.
From the Publisher
Environmental damage caused by military activity‘Rosalie Bertell is an author with an expert grasp of the biological effects of radiation.’ New Scientist
‘No-one who reads it will ever be complacent again.’ Polly Toynbee, The Guardian
‘In the aftermath of the Gulf War, experts predicted that the smoke from burning oil fields would warm the lower atmosphere throughout South Asia, causing monsoon to arrive earlier and more forcefully than usual. A huge typhoon struck Bangladesh on 1 May, killing 100,000 people.’
As weaponry and warfare have become more complex and sophisticated, so the long-term effects have become more deadly. Looking not just at the visible manifestations of damage such as ‘scorched earth’, Rosalie Bertell shows how the space programme, Star Wars research, depleted uranium and electromagnetic weapons have destabilised the natural balance of the earth’s ecosystem causing widespread devastation in environmental, economic and social terms. She calls for a new approach to security, rising above national agendas, to seek global solutions to a global problem.
Dr Rosalie Bertell’s No Immediate Danger was the first book to reveal the dangers of low-level radiation causing international controversy when it was first published in 1985. Since then she has become a respected activist and lecturer, testifying before, the US Congress, the Select Committee on Uranium Resources and the Sizewell Enquiry in the UK. She lives in Canada. Rosalie Bertell has been selected by the International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, UK for inclusion in 2000 Outstanding Women of the Twentieth Century.
