If You Love This Planet by Helen Caldicott

If You Love This Planet by Helen Caldicott

The US, with 5 percent of the world's population, uses 25 percent of its energy resources; 20 to 200 species become extinct daily in tropical rainforests; and each 1 percent decrease in the ozone level produces a 6 percent increase in the incidence of skin cancer. A renowned anti-nuclear activist for many years, Helen Caldicott turns here from the arms race to the race to save the planet, laying out the grim details of ozone depletion, excess energy consumption, pollution and global warming. She also gives her recommendations for a cure - and a cause for hope. She suggests that we must learn energy efficiency, we must organize politically (voting, for instance, should be compulsory), and we must hold corporations and governments accountable for their actions.

The world's leading spokesperson for the antinuclear movement, Dr. Helen Caldicott is the co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and the 2003 winner of the Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom. Both the Smithsonian Institute and Ladies' Home Journal have named her one of the Most Influential Women of the Twentieth Century. In 2001 she founded the Nuclear Policy Research Institute, which later became Beyond Nuclear, in Washington, D.C. The author of The New Nuclear Danger, War in Heaven (with Craig Eisendrath), Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer, and Loving This Planet and the editor of Crisis Without End (all published by The New Press), she is currently president of the Helen Caldicott Foundation/NuclearFreePlanet.org. She divides her time between Australia and the United States.

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ISBN 13	9780393308358
ISBN 10	0393308359
Title	If You Love This Planet
Author	Helen Caldicott
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	WW Norton & Co
Year published	1992-03-01
Number of pages	224
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