Download or read book The Spoils of Progress written by Marshall I. Goldman and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the forces that have been brought about the abuses of water, air, land and raw material in Russia, examining both the drawbacks and advantages of state control and conservation. Because industrialism had its beginnings in capitalist countries, the existence of environmental disruption in socialist and communist societies has been largely ignored. The truth is that pollution of natural resources plagues the planned economy and free enterprise system alike. Rapid industrial growth rather than form of government is the prime agent causing environmental havoc, and where socialist reality diverges from socialist theory, the ecological balance of nature suffers as in any major industrial country. Marshall I. Goldman, whose articles on the subject have appeared in Science, The New York Times, and The New Yorker, brings this point home as she describes abuses of water, air, land, and raw materials in Russia, analyzing the forces that have been brought about the current situation and describing both the drawbacks and advantages of state control and conservation. He devotes chapters to the pollution of Lake Baikal in Siberia, remarking that Baikal is a unique lake in the world and all mankind will suffer from its desecration, and to the Aral and Caspian seas which is literally in danger of drying up as a result and the construction of hydroelectric stations. Proposals to restore the seas by building dams and reversing the flow of major rivers from north to south (Reshaping the Earth) may have equally profound and undesirable results. The book concludes by pointing out that the Soviet state is both manufacturer and polluter and its priorities lie with the increased production rather than conservation; with progress rather than restraint. Yet, hopefully, Goldman points to a number of beneficial state controls which if enlarged in the direction of restoring and protecting natural resources could have made Russia the most powerful and efficient of conservationists. Appendixes contain selected laws on the environment, the Conservation Law of the Russian Republic 1960, and the Water Law 1970.
Download or read book The Divide written by Taylor Dotson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why our obsession with truth--the idea that some undeniable truth will make politics unnecessary--is driving our political polarization. In The Divide, Taylor Dotson argues provocatively that what drives political polarization is not our disregard for facts in a post-truth era, but rather our obsession with truth. The idea that some undeniable truth will make politics unnecessary, Dotson says, is damaging democracy. We think that appealing to facts, or common sense, or nature, or the market will resolve political disputes. We view our opponents as ignorant, corrupt, or brainwashed. Dotson argues that we don't need to agree with everyone, or force everyone to agree with us; we just need to be civil enough to practice effective politics. Dotson shows that we are misguided to pine for a lost age of respect for expertise. For one thing, such an age never happened. For another, people cannot be made into ultra-rational Vulcans. Dotson offers a road map to guide both citizens and policy makers in rethinking and refashioning political interactions to be more productive. To avoid the trap of divisive and fanatical certitude, we must stop idealizing expert knowledge and romanticizing common sense. He outlines strategies for making political disputes more productive: admitting uncertainty, sharing experiences, and tolerating and negotiating disagreement. He suggests reforms to political practices and processes, adjustments to media systems, and dramatic changes to schooling, childhood, the workplace, and other institutions. Productive and intelligent politics is not a product of embracing truth, Dotson argues, but of adopting a pluralistic democratic process.
Download or read book Secrets of the Spoils written by Tim Brady and published by Tim Brady. This book was released on 2021-05-21 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted aviation historian, Jay Jessey, has been asked to track down the co-owner of a multi-billion dollar airplane engine manufacturing company who disappeared while on a flight in 1934. He had been returning St. Louis from Washington D.C. where he had testified before Senator Black’s committee investigating airmail fraud during the “Spoils Conferences” of the Hoover administration. The current heirs have been frozen out of the company and if Jessey can find the aircraft, he may be able to restore the heirs’ claim to the fortune.
Download or read book The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History written by David Lowenthal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-13 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A paperback edition of a critically-acclaimed 1998 study of the meaning and effects of 'Heritage'.
Download or read book Fiscal Year 1976 Health and Environmental Effects Research Program Abstracts written by United States. Environmental Protection Agency and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evolution written by F. B. Jevons and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Evolution" by F. B. Jevons. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Pollution Politics and International Law written by R. Michael M’Gonigle and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.
Download or read book The Illusions of Progress written by Georges Sorel and published by CNIB, [197-]. This book was released on 1969 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book History Narrative and Testimony in Amitav Ghosh s Fiction written by Chitra Sankaran and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first collection of international scholarship on the fiction of Amitav Ghosh. Ghosh's work is read by a wide audience and is well regarded by general readers, critics, and scholars throughout the world. Born in India, Ghosh has lived in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. His work spans genres from contemporary realism to historical fiction to science fiction, but has consistently dealt with the dislocations, violence, and meetings of peoples and cultures engendered by colonialism. The essays in this volume analyze Ghosh's novels in ways that yield new insights into concepts central to postcolonial and transnational studies, making important intertextual connections and foregrounding links to prevailing theoretical and speculative scholarship. The work's introduction argues that irony is central to Ghosh's vision and discusses the importance of the concepts of "testimony" and "history" to Ghosh's narratives. An invaluable interview with Amitav Ghosh discusses individual works and the author's overall philosophy.
Download or read book Progress and poverty written by Henry George and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Spoils of Empire written by Francis Newton Thorpe and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Newton Thorpe (1857-1926) was a noted historian and author.
Download or read book Our Republic written by Samuel Eagle Forman and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Work Inc written by Edmund Byrne and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-11 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many workers today feel that the longstanding social contract between government, business, and labor has been broken. This book examines legal and philosophical problems that must be addressed if there is to be a new social contract that is fair to workers. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, from the popular press to technical philosophy, Edmund F. Byrne brings into focus ethical issues involved in corporate decisions to reorganize, relocate, or automate. In assessing the human costs of these decisions, he shows why, to a worker, "corporations are not reducible to their assets and liabilities any more than a government is merely its annual budget. That they are organizations, that these organizations do things, and that they are socially responsible for what they do." In support of this assignment of responsibility, Byrne seeks to demythologize corporate hegemony by confronting a variety of intellectual "dragons" that guard the gates of the status quo. These include legal assumptions about corporate personhood and commodification, private property and eminent domain; management ideas about the autonomous employee and profit without payrolls; technocratic dreams of a dehumanized workplace: ideological belief in progress and competition; and philosophical arguments for libertarian freedom, liberal welfare, and global justice. Because of these and other mainstream perspectives, workers today are widely perceived, in law and in common parlance, to be isolated atoms. But, Byrne emphasizes, work. including work done for a transnational corporation, is done in a community. Since corporate leaders make decisions that have an impact on people’s lives and on communities, involvement in such decisions must be not only corporate or governmental but community-based as well.
