Your Personal Emergency Guide for Toxic Waste Events For Personal and Community Security |
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Author:
| Pillsbury-Foster, Melinda |
Contribution by:
| Lincoln, David |
ISBN: | 978-1-4935-9636-2 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2013 |
Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $5.00 |
Book Description:
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Americans today face a growing risk from the impact of Toxic Events. While these have been taking place for decades, resulting in thousands of Superfund and industrial sites across the country, the impact on our health and the land, water, and air which surrounds us is now becoming far clearer. To protect ourselves from the threats presented by Toxic Events more of us must understand what to do when a Toxic Event takes place, and what steps to take to be ready. This Guide has been...
More DescriptionAmericans today face a growing risk from the impact of Toxic Events. While these have been taking place for decades, resulting in thousands of Superfund and industrial sites across the country, the impact on our health and the land, water, and air which surrounds us is now becoming far clearer. To protect ourselves from the threats presented by Toxic Events more of us must understand what to do when a Toxic Event takes place, and what steps to take to be ready. This Guide has been written to provide this essential information.The land, water, and sky which sustain us are being destroyed by the acts of corporations whose business plan is predicated on aggressively externalizing costs caused by their failure to do business responsibly. The people and places impacted struggle with a legal system, and regulatory infrastructure which was available for purchase and a public unaware of the dangers which threaten their homes, families and survival. Now, this is the reality experienced around the world. But this can change rapidly if this essential information is in the hands of those at risk, which at this point, is all of us. The authors, Melinda Pillsbury-Foster, Dave Lincoln, and Charles Lincoln, provide the reader with the tools needed to fight back and protect themselves. Pillsbury-Foster is a long time activist for social justice. Her grandfather, Arthur C. Pillsbury, was a friend of John Muir and dedicated to the preservation of nature. Dave Lincoln is a geologist with a Masters Degree from Salem State University in Geo Information Science, who provided testimony for the case brought by Ecuador against BP, having walked away from his career with oil companies on every continent in 1996 to work, unpaid, for Green Peace. Charles Lincoln, PH.D., Harvard, J.D., Chicago School of Law, studied the law in relation to the environment and has long been active on the issue. The first step is understanding the hazards in advance of any event. The second is taking those actions which ensure corporations are accountable for their irresponsible business practices. With this Guide you can arm yourself with the facts.