The People's Republic of Chemicals

by Chip Jacobs and William J. Kelly

Book Overview

Maverick environmental writers William J. Kelly and Chip Jacobs follow up their acclaimed Smogtown with a provocative examination of China's ecological calamity already imperiling a warming planet. Toxic smog most people figured was obsolete needlessly kills as many as died in the 9/11 attacks every day, while sometimes Grand Canyon-sized drifts of industrial particles aloft on the winds rain down ozone and waterway-poisoning mercury in America...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1940207258
• ISBN13: 9781940207254
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Rare Bird Books, a Vireo Book
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 8.3"