Volume 52, Number 13 · August 11, 2005
Endgame
By Tim Flannery
America's Environmental Report Card: Are We Making the Grade?
by Harvey Blatt
MIT Press, 277 pp., $27.95
Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy
by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
HarperCollins, 244 pp., $21.95
One with Nineveh: Politics, Consumption, and the Human Future
by Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich
Island Press/Shearwater, 447 pp., $27.00
Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor
by Steve Lerner
MIT Press, 303 pp., $27.95
Climate Change: Debating America's Policy Options
by David G. Victor
Council on Foreign Relations, 165 pp., $15.00 (paper)
The Real Environmental Crisis: Why Poverty, Not Affluence, Is the Environment's Number One Enemy
by Jack M. Hollander
University of California Press, 237 pp., $35.00; $16.95 (paper)
Robert Orban, the satirist and former presidential speech writer, once said that 'there's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.' The statement becomes an epigraph to a chapter of America's Environmental Report Card, by Harvey Blatt, which sets out the problem of air quality and other issues in more scientific—but equally negative—prose. But really, what is the state of the environment?
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