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The Contamination of the Earth

Name: The Contamination of the Earth
Brand: The MIT Press
SKU: 9780262542739-MTUSDTR
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A History of Pollutions in the Industrial Age

Francois Jarrige (Author) • Thomas Le Roux (Author) ... more

History for a Sustainable Future (Series) ... more

Edition: US - Paperback / softback

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480 pages • 14.3 x 22.07 x 2.87 cm

Approx. weight: 0.61 kg

Publication date: 16 Nov,2021

Barcode/ ISBN: 9780262542739 • The MIT Press

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By: Francois Jarrige, Thomas Le Roux | Series: History for a Sustainable Future

The trajectories of pollution in global capitalism, from the toxic waste of early tanneries to the poisonous effects of pesticides in the twentieth century.

Through the centuries, the march of economic progress has been accompanied by the spread of industrial pollution. As our capacities for production and our aptitude for consumption have increased, so have their byproducts--chemical contamination from fertilizers and pesticides, diesel emissions, oil spills, a vast "plastic continent" found floating in the ocean. The Contamination of the Earth offers a social and political history of industrial pollution, mapping its trajectories over three centuries, from the toxic wastes of early tanneries to the fossil fuel energy regime of the twentieth century.