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AMERICANS HAVE JUST begun to discover the damage that decades of careless industry have done to their environment. In Restoring the Earth John Berger tells the story of people who have tried to clean up damaged ecosystems and, if not restore them to their pristine states, at least make them habitable...
...recognition that stopping pollution is no longer enough to ensure a healthy environment for future generations, or even for this one. "This book is about a few Americans who fervently believe a blighted environment is not acceptable and who are optimistic about restoring the Earth ecologically," begins Berger. He then goes on to show, by example, what we can and can not expect from restoration and what sort of initiative and commitment restoration efforts will require...
...Some of Berger's stories cover standard topics of environmental abuse: pumping industrial waste straight into rivers until they are opaque with sludge, or a plant's 20 years of illegally disposing of toxic chemicals making groundwater poisonous. In recent years the frequency of such pollution has become all too clear. In Massachusetts alone, there are over a thousand toxic waste dumps that will take the next hundred years to clean up under current laws...
...While Berger sings the praises of "resource restorers," his account of environmental problems is neither glib nor blindly optimistic. His desciption of the clean-up of the devastated site of a Hooker Chemical Company plant in Michgan tempers hope for restoring a savaged ecosystem with a realistic sense of what can't be done--of political inertia and of the irreparable harm that has already been done...
...BERGER'S IMMUNE POWER DIET, Berger...