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This volume focuses on the 20th century and teaches the havoc that humankind has inflicted on the air, water, and land.
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A CHRONICLE OF INDIVIDUAL, INDUSTRIAL, AND GOVERNMENTAL CARELESSNESS
LEE DAVIS
Facts On File., Inc.
To Amy Who is, herself, an environment that ceaselessly thrives and endures and prevails
ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS: A Chronicle of Individual, Industrial, and Governmental Carelessness Copyright 1998 by Lee Davis
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Davis, Lee A. Environmental disasters / Lee Davis. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8160-3265-3 (alk. paper) 1. Environmental degradation. 2. NatureEffect of human beings on. 3. Industrial accidents Environmental aspects. I. Title. GE140.D3831998 363.73'2dc2198-29134
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Contents
Acknowledgments
vi
Introduction
v
1. Collective and Individual Assaults Against the Environment
1
2. Industrial and Governmental Disasters
71
3. Oil Spill Disasters
133
4. Nuclear Disasters
181
5. War Crimes Against the Environment
201
Selected Bibliography
231
Index
233
Page VI
Acknowledgements
There is always a staggeringly abundant population of people who make a book possible, from those who inspire to those who conspire, those who contribute the software of ideas and those who supply the hardware of information, those who comfort and those who shame an author into getting down to work and staying there. Some of all of these will be left out, so I apologize to them ahead of time.
But to those who still swim in the now environmentally safe waters of my memory, my gratitude:
To Jean Kaleda and her crew in the Riverhead Library, who dug till they found what I wanted, then made it available when I needed it; to Selma Kelson and the research staff of the Patchogue-Medford Library, who were endlessly helpful; to the research staff of the Library of Congress, who brought a little reality and some reward to my search for documentation.
To Alexandra McCarty of National Public Radio in Washington, who, in the oddest and most fortuitous of ways, directed me to a semiburied treasure of environmental resources.
To Nora McCarthy of Greenpeace, who not only supplied me with astonishing illustrations but tirelessly and patiently opened countless doors that led me to sources she didn't immediately possess.
To the patient and no-nonsense Steve Delaney of the EPA in Washington, who broke through the bonds of his agency and his call of duty to supply me with richly rewarding resources.
To Petty Officer Brown of the U.S. Coast Guard Picture Division in Washington, whose cooperation, efficiency, and graciousness were indispensable.
To all my friends in London, and particularly to Liz Dew and her imaginative and creative and munificent supplying of some of the most dramatic visual images in this book.
To the unnamed but enormously generous and helpful people at UNEP, who supplied me with mountains of material that had a way of smoothing out conflicting theories and multiple interpretations of the major environmental issues of our age.
To Annie of Squires, who provided me with esoteric reference material that lent color and wonder to some of the tougher entries.
To the editors of the Sierra Club magazine, whose information and expertise were invaluable.
To my agent, Ed Knappman, for helping this to happen.
To Tony, my canine companion, who kept me company and probably sane during the long and weary winters of the writing of this book.
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