Ecocide in the USSR : health and nature under siege

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Ecocide in the USSR : health and nature under siege

Murray Feshbach and Alfred Friendly, Jr. ; foreword by Lester Brown

BasicBooks, c1992

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-363) and index

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Hospitals perform appendectomies not with scalpels, which are in short supply, but with shaving razor blades...70,000,000 people (nearly a third of the population) live in places where the Soviet-defined maximum pollution concentration is exceeded by at least five times...DDT, despite being banned in the USSR since 1972, is used on sixteen percent of agricultural land...The facts, long hidden by official secrecy, are at last emerging, and they tell a grim tale of a failed medical system and pollution so pervasive that cities are poisoned, land left unfit for agriculture, and Soviet people too weakened to meet the industrial and military needs of the nation. Murray Feshbach, the world's foremost authority on Soviet society, and journalist Alfred Friendly, Jr., supply the first authoritative measure of the costs of this crisis and an assessment of its political consequences. To repair the damage already done will take decades and massive investments of funds and technology. But the consequences of ignoring this lethal neglect and abuse - for the Soviets and for all citizens of the planet - are dire, Feshbach and Friendly warn.

目次

  • Part 1 Facing facts: shortened lives, needless deaths
  • vicious synergy - pollution and disease
  • Chernobyl - the Glasnost fallout
  • from subjects to activists
  • protest by the Volga
  • onto the streets
  • from protest to power
  • beginnings of wisdom. Part 2 Birth of the future: the whip of necessity
  • science subservient
  • socialism versus the louse
  • a duty to health
  • the plan - agent of destruction
  • false fronts and self-deception. Part 3 Harvests of neglect: as ye sow
  • a stinking ruin
  • ill fares the land
  • contamination for mass consumption
  • preference for poison
  • back to (human) nature. Part 4 A sea of troubles: deaths at an early age
  • resentment rising. Part 5 Dark, Satanic mills: the shroud of pollution
  • Siberian wastes and the wastelands
  • death traps in the rust belt
  • no place to hide
  • politics, economics and pollution. Part 6 Water torture: "Conserve This Glorious Sea"
  • wasting away
  • currents of contamination
  • last resorts. Part 7 "Plus Electrification"
  • rocks and hard places
  • "We Simply Squander Energy"
  • "We Need a Propagandist"
  • Chernobyl - costs of cataclysm
  • mind over matter
  • coverup and controversy
  • the wages of fear
  • "Letting the Chips Fly". Part 8 Crippled giant: sick call
  • mayhem in uniform
  • military medicine - an oxymoron?
  • hoist by its own petard
  • up in arms. Part 9 Gathering ills: environment and health
  • losing ground
  • drinking and dying
  • new ills, old strategies
  • short-changed
  • opiates for the masses
  • failing according to plan
  • there ought to be a law. Part 10 Cradle to grave: siege conditions
  • desperate remedies
  • a woman's story
  • motherhood and its discontents
  • equal rights, unequal burdens
  • handicapped healers
  • unarmed, maybe dangerous
  • prognosis guarded. Part 11 The people speak: greening around the edges
  • ready for prime time
  • brushfires at the grass roots
  • fighting city hall
  • all power to the Soviets!
  • things fall apart. Part 12 A time to heal: environmental economics
  • the prices of cleanup
  • first things first
  • Rx for health
  • whence cometh my help.

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