EAN: 9780262542739

THE CONTAMINATION OF THE EARTH - FRANCOIS JARRI...

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.

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