Poisonous skies : acid rain and the globalization of pollution / Rachel Emma Rothschild.

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Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.

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The environmental repercussions from fossil fuel use have drawn increasing attention from the public in recent years, particularly as climate change has emerged as one of the most pressing threats facing our planet. Yet the idea that fossil fuel pollution could travel across vast stretches of the earth's atmosphere to impact ecosystems around the world has a much longer history, one with implications for how we address our current environmental crisis. 'Poisonous Skies' is an attempt to understand the history of our knowledge about fossil fuel pollutants and how scientists and policymakers came to grasp the global nature of their environmental impact. It does so by looking at the first air pollution problem identified as having damaging effects on areas far from the source of emissions: acid rain.

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March 24, 2020

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