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Unwelcome Harvest - Agriculture and pollution (Paperback)
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Unwelcome Harvest - Agriculture and pollution (Paperback)
Series: Natural Resource Management Set
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Total price: R1,136
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Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and some are
toxic to humans; some fungicides and herbicides cause cancer.
Nitrates result in the contamination of drinking water and produce
the risk of the blue-baby syndrome in infants and of stomach cancer
in adults. Agriculture produces methane, ammonia, nitrous oxide and
the products of burning off, all of which add to the world's
problems of acid rain, depletion of the ozone layer and global
warming. This book, which focuses on the UK, the USA and Third
World countries, is the first comprehensive review of agriculture
and pollution: it examines the facts and assesses the relative
dangers of each pollution problem. It also considers the effects of
pollution on agriculture itself crop yields are depressed and
livestock damaged by various forms of pollution from all sources.
The authors offer solutions to these apparently overwhelming
problems, and describe existing technology which would allow us to
deal with them. Originally published in 1991
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