1st Edition
When the Bough Breaks... Our children, our environment
276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
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TO ACCOMPANY A MAJOR ITV DOCUMENTARY We are poisoning our planet and destroying the lives of our children. In the west arguments rage over how much nuclear radiation and toxic dumping is safe, while children continue to breath filthy air and eat food full of pesticides. In the third World, over four million children die each year from drinking unclean water. Adults make the decisions but children... Read more
Authors' Note
Introduction: The Children Crisis
1. Children at the Centre
2. Women and Children Last
3. Polluting Posterity
4. Keeping Children Alive - from Calories to Cities
5. Medicine, Population and Power
6. Perilous Future - Global Warming and all that
7. Children and the Environment: Undervalued Resources
8. Remembering the Future
References
Biography
Thomas, Laura
