Technological Risk: What Are the Real Dangers, If Any, of Toxic Chemicals, the Greenhouse Effect, Microwave Radiation, Nuclear Power, Air

by H.W. Lewis

Book Overview

Risks seem to abound in our everyday lives, especially the risks flowing from the explosion of our modern technology, with its pesticides, pollution, nuclear power, microwave radiation and chemical trace elements in food of all kinds. Two questions face all of us: how real are these risks and, if real, how do we manage our lives in order to avoid personal damage from them? The book examines these questions, delving into the nature and true seriousness...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393308294
• ISBN13: 9780393308297
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 3.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book on risks, and managing risks of, technology

An excellent book on the risks associated with modern technology. Looks at the risks of car and plane travel, food additives, nuclear power, and other controversial topics. Lots of interesting examples. Did you know, for example, that the US government measures incoming wine for radiation, and rejects it if it's not radioactive enough