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(Green Program Project pamphlet reprinted in The Vermont Peace Reader, 1983) Will the present-day peace movement repeat the errors of the 1960s anti-war movement by placing its primary focus on …
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The American Crisis part I and II was written Feb. and Aug. 1980 and published in COMMENT vol. 1, no. 4 and no. 5 (1980). This online version brings together …
Note: The following issue of COMMENT was presented as a lecture to the Critical Theory Seminar of the University of California at Los Angeles on May 29, 1980. My remarks …
The twentieth century is the heir of human history – the legatee of man’s age-old effort to free himself from drudgery and material insecurity. For the first time in the …
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CHAPTER FIVE: ENVIRONMENT AND CANCER The Importance of Environment One of the most challenging problems in public health involves the influence of man’s environment on the incidence of cancer. Differences …
CHAPTER FOUR: The Problem of Chemicals in Food The Consumer and Commercial Foods With the rise of an urbanized society, the production of food becomes a complex industrial operation. In …
CHAPTER SIX: RADIATION AND HUMAN HEALTH The Effects of Radiation It is hardly necessary to emphasize that since the explosion of a nuclear weapon at Alamogordo, New Mexico, in July …
CHAPTER SEVEN: HUMAN ECOLOGY Survival and Health Despite mounting problems and difficulties, most official statements on environmental change tend to be reassuring and optimistic. We are told repeatedly, for example, …
CHAPTER THREE: URBAN LIFE AND HEALTH The Changing Urban Scene Man’s environment attains a high degree of simplification in the modern metropolis. At first this may seem surprising: We normally …
Our Synthetic Environment CHAPTER TWO: AGRICULTURE AND HEALTH Tuesday, November 18 2003 @ 01:28 AM PST Contributed by: murray By: Murray Bookchin Problems of soil and agriculture seldom arouse the …