Choked : life and breath in the age of air pollution

Book 2019

"Air pollution prematurely kills seven million people every year, including more than one hundred thousand Americans. It is strongly linked to strokes, heart attacks, many kinds of cancer, dementia, and premature birth, among other ailments. In Choked, Beth Gardiner travels the world to tell the story of this modern-day plague, taking readers from the halls of power in Washington and the diesel-fogged London streets she walks with her daughter to...

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Air Pollution

Air Pollution Health aspects

Air Pollution Social aspects

Environmental quality

Toxicology

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ISBN:

9780226495859

Description:

290 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-284) and index

Contents:

Prologue. Inhale: the meaning of a breath
Part one. Holding our breath. The measure of a lung: charting pollution's power
Ground zero: Delhi's health emergency
9,416: living London's diesel disaster
Air you can chew : Poland and the price of coal
Cows, almonds, asthma: crisis in the San Joaquin Valley
Home fires burning: a paradigm shifts
Part two Coming up for air. To change a nation: the story of America's Clean Air Act
Reluctant innovators: air and the automakers
Inch by inch: L.A.'s long road
Live from the "airpocalypse": China's next revolution
"To whom belongs the city?": Berlin looks beyond cars
Epilogue. Exhale: what comes next

LCCN:

2018052335

Control Number:

2748867

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