The Silent Epidemic: Coal and the Hidden Threat to Health

by Alan H. Lockwood

Book Overview

Why our dependence on coal-produced energy is bad for our health: a physician maps the connections of burning coal to death and disease.

We will not find "exposure to burning coal" listed as the cause of death on a single death certificate, but tens of thousands of deaths from asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, heart attacks, strokes, and other illnesses are clearly linked to coal-derived pollution. As politicians...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026201789X
• ISBN13: 9780262017893
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher