The invisible killer : the rising global threat of air pollution : and how we can fight back
Gary Fuller (Author)
Scientists were aware of the impact of air pollution as far back as the seventeenth century. Now, as more of us live in cities, we are closer than ever to pollution sources, and the detrimental impact on the environment and our health has reached crisis point. This book will introduce you to the individuals whose research paved the way to today's understanding of air pollution, often at their own detriment. The author's global story examines incidents from London's Great Smog to Norway's acid rain ; Los Angeles's traffic problem to wood-burning damage in New Zealand. He argues that the only way to alter the future course of our planet and improve collective global health is for city and national governments to stop ignoring evidence and take action, persuading the public and making polluters bear the full cost of the harm that they do.--Adapted from book jacket
Print Book, English, 2019
First American edition View all formats and editions
Melville House Publishing, Brooklyn, NY, 2019
xiii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9781612197838, 1612197833
1055687378
Introduction
Part 1. Warning signs : From Medieval London to pea-soupers
Chapter 1. Early explorers
Chapter 2. Warning signs ignored
Part 2. The battle begins : Twentieth-century damage
Chapter 3. The great smog
Chapter 4. The madness of lead in gasoline
Chapter 5. Ozone, the pollutant that rots rubber
Chapter 6. Acid rain and the particles that form in our air
Chapter 7. A tale of six cities
Part 3. The battle grounds of today : Modern problems in a modern world
Chapter 8. A global tour in a polluted world
Chapter 9. Counting particles and the enigma of modern air pollution
Chapter 10. VW and the tricky problem with diesel
Chapter 11. Wood-burning - the most natural way to heat my home?
Chapter 12. The wrong transportation
Chapter 13. Cleaning the air
Part 4. Fighting back : The future of our air
Chapter 14. A conclusion : What happens next?
Acknowledgements
References
Index
First published in Great Britain in 2018