We've eaten Alar with our apples and PCBs with our fish, drunk
arsenic with our water, breathed asbestos in our schools. Someone
sounded the alarm, someone else said we were safe, and both had
science on their side. Whom are we to trust? How are we to know?
Amid this chaos of questions and conflicting information, Aaron
Wildavsky arrives with just what the beleaguered citizen needs: a
clear, fair, and factual look at how the rival claims of
environmentalists and industrialists work, what they mean, and
where to start sorting them out. Working with his students at a
risk analysis center, Wildavsky examined all the evidence behind
the charges and countercharges in several controversial cases
involving environmental health and public safety. Here he lays out
these cases in terms an average citizen can understand, weighs the
merits of the claims of various parties, and offers reasoned
judgments on the government's response. From Love Canal to Times
Beach, from DDT to Agent Orange, acid rain, and global warming,
from saccharin to asbestos, nuclear waste, and radon, Wildavsky
shows how we can achieve an informed understanding of the
contentious environmental issues that confront us daily. The book
supports the conclusion Wildavsky reached himself, both as a
citizen committed to the welfare of the earth and its inhabitants,
and as a social scientist concerned with how public policy is made:
though it is bad to be harmed, it is worse to be harmed in the name
of health.
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