Against the fires of hell : the environmental disaster of the Gulf War / T.M. Hawley.
The Gulf War was a minor war as wars go, but its aftereffects have pointed out, as perhaps nothing else has, just how fragile the planet Earth is against the assaults of modern warfare and just how irreversible the damage can be. The capping of the burning oil wells in Kuwait was the greatest firefi...
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| Other title: | Fires of hell. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers,
c1992.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The fog of peace
- Success in the oil fields
- The biggest oil spill in history
- "We must recover the oil"
- Dire predictions, surprising measurements
- The smoke seen round the world
- The toll on plants and wildlife
- Lasting scars
- Breathing black air
- The health crisis in Iraq.