The Invisible Killer: The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution - And How We Can Fight Back - Couverture souple

Fuller, Gary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1911545515 ISBN 13 : 9781911545514

Editeur : Melville House UK, 2019

Synopsis

Updated edition including a new epilogue.

The air pollution that we breathe every day is largely invisible - but it is killing us. How did it get this bad, and how can we stop it? Far from a modern-day problem, scientists were aware of the impact of air pollution as far back as the seventeenth century. The Invisible Killer will introduce you to the incredible individuals whose groundbreaking research paved the way for today's understanding of air pollution. Gary Fuller's global story examines devastating incidents from London's Great Smog to Norway's acid rain; Los Angeles's traffic problem to wood-burning damage in New Zealand.

Fuller 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. The decisions that we make today will impact our health for decades to come.

 

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dr Gary Fuller is an air pollution scientist at King's College London. He leads the development of the London Air Quality Network, making information on air pollution more accessible to the public. He writes the Pollutionwatch series for the Guardian and was one of Evening Standard s Progress 1000 selections, highlighting London s most influential people in 2017.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Melville House UK
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1911545515
• ISBN 13: 9781911545514
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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