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03163aam a22004218i 4500 001 AF03BCB2B81211E9A4E5754297128E48 003 SILO 005 20190806010914 008 181115s2019 ilu b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018054763 020 $a 022663471X 020 $a 9780226634715 035 $a (OCoLC)1051689197 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a TD195.42 $b .R67 2019 082 00 $a 363.738/6 $2 23 100 1 $a Rothschild, Rachel Emma $e author. 245 10 $a Poisonous skies : $b acid rain and the globalization of pollution / $c Rachel Emma Rothschild. 263 $a 1904 264 1 $a Chicago ; $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2019. 300 $a viii, 335 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: a rain of ashes -- Creating a global pollution problem -- The science of acid rain -- Energy industry research and the politics of doubt -- Pollution across the Iron Curtain -- Environmental diplomacy in the Cold War -- An environmental crisis collides with a conservative revolution -- Acid rain and the precautionary principle -- A warning bell for a fossil fuel future -- Epilogue: the climate change reckoning. 520 8 $a Poisonous Skies explores how scientists and policymakers came to grasp the danger fossil fuels posed to the global environment by looking at the first air pollution problem identified as having damaging effects on areas far from the source of emissions: acid rain. This is the first history to investigate acid rain in an international context, spanning from its identification in the 1960s to the present day. The story Rachel Emma Rothschild unfurls reveals how a legacy of military sponsorship of physics, chemistry, and other fields during wartime influenced the direction of research on the environment; the importance of environmental diplomacy to the d tente process of the Cold War; the role of the British and American coal industries in environmental science; and finally, how acid rain shaped ideas about environmental risk and the precautionary principle. Grounded in archival research in eight different countries and five languages as well as interviews with leading scientists from both government and industry, Poisonous Skies should interest anyone seeking to learn from our past in order to better understand and approach the environmental crises of our present day. 650 0 $a Acid rain $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a Acid rain $x Political aspects. 650 0 $a Acid rain $x Environmental aspects. 650 0 $a Air $x History. $x Research $x History. 650 7 $a Acid rain $x Environmental aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00795783 650 7 $a Acid rain $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00795799 650 7 $a Acid rain $x Research. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00795802 650 7 $a Air $x Research. $x Research. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00802156 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200103020001.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AF03BCB2B81211E9A4E5754297128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search