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Power Over People (Paperback, Updated Edition)
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Power Over People (Paperback, Updated Edition)
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Loot Price R377
Discovery Miles 3 770
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For most of us, life is spent in one vast electromagnetic field. In
the office we sit in front of computer terminals, at home, in front
of the television. We cook our meals in microwave ovens, trim our
hedges with electric shears, illuminate our houses, workplaces, and
streets with incandescent and fluorescent lighting. And until only
recently, the potential hazards imposed by life in the shadows of
high-voltage power lines have hardly been considered. First
published in 1973, Power Over People was the first book to address
the frightening potential side effects of our dependence on
electrical energy. Now brought up to date with a new introduction,
and including an epilogue that offers the most current studies and
findings available today, this classic book is more timely than
ever. Louise Young here lays bare the short-sighted, materialistic
policies of the electric power industry, showing how power and the
conglomerates that produce it have clearly won out over rights and
safety concerns of people. She provides disturbing documentary
evidence that demonstrates how long-term exposure to radiation from
power lines can cause brain cancer, childhood leukemia, as well as
damage to the nervous system. Through the course of the book we
come to understand that what is often blindly accepted as
"progress" can mean the inexorable advance of environmental
destruction and the withering-rather than enhancing-of the quality
of life in America. Based on a case-study of a small, rural
community in Ohio, Young shows in compelling fashion what happens
when a grass-roots group of concerned citizens resists the
construction of the world's largest electrical transmission towers,
literally in their own backyards. Her story of their ultimate
failure becomes a stinging indictment of indifferent government
agencies and the lax laws that fail to protect the environment.
Lively, readable, and, at times, even shocking, this is a book for
environmentally-minded and safety-conscious readers of the 1990s.
Its wealth of information, its incisive analysis, and its bold
confrontation of facts we can no longer afford to ignore make Power
Over People a book everyone should read and reflect upon.
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