The chemical age : how chemists fought famine and disease, killed millions, and changed our relationship with the Earth / Frank A. von Hippel.
"It has been nearly 60 years since the publication of Silent Spring, in which Rachel Carson brought to light evidence of the devastating ecological effects of pesticides. This book, by Frank von Hippel, is a sweeping history of these chemicals and our complicated relationship with them. It show...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2020.
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| Summary: | "It has been nearly 60 years since the publication of Silent Spring, in which Rachel Carson brought to light evidence of the devastating ecological effects of pesticides. This book, by Frank von Hippel, is a sweeping history of these chemicals and our complicated relationship with them. It shows how they've made the modern world possible, while at the same time threatening its essential fabric. "This book starts with a tragedy that led scientists on an urgent mission to prevent famine with chemicals," von Hippel writes in his manuscript's Prologue. "It ends with the realization that those chemicals were insidiously damaging human health and driving species toward extinction." Along the way, we learn how pesticides' destructive legacy led to the environmental movement and made possible a new era of ecological thinking"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 389 pages ) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-353) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226697383 022669738X |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on print version record. Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed March 5, 2021) |