Unwelcome Harvest: Agriculture and pollution

by Gordon R. Conway and Jules Pretty

Book Overview

Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and some are toxic to humans; some fungicides and herbicides cause cancer. Nitrates result in the contamination of drinking water and produce the risk of the �blue-baby� syndrome in infants and of stomach cancer in adults. Agriculture produces methane, ammonia, nitrous oxide and the products of burning off, all of which add to the world's problems of acid rain, depletion of the ozone...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415851831
• ISBN13: 9780415851831
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 676 Pages
• Weight: 2.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"