Wildfire And Americans: How to Save Lives, Property, And Your Tax Dollars - Rilegato

Kennedy, Roger G.

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ISBN 10: 0809065819 ISBN 13: 9780809065813

Casa editrice: Hill & Wang Pub, 2006

Riassunto

Three years after Roger Kennedy retired as director of the National Park Service, from his Santa Fe home he watched as the Cerro Grande Fire moved across the Pajarito Plateau and into Los Alamos. Two hundred and thirty-five homes were destroyed, more than 45,000 acres of forest were burned, and the nation’s nuclear laboratories were threatened; even before the embers had died a blame game erupted. Kennedy’s career as a public servant, which encompasses appointments under five presidential administrations, convinced him that the tragedy would produce scapegoats and misinformation, and leave American lives at risk. That was unacceptable, even unforgivable.
 Wildfire and Americans is a passionate, deeply informed appeal that we acknowledge wildfire not as a fire problem but as a people problem. Americans are in the wrong places, damningly because they were encouraged to settle there. Politicians, scientists, and CEOs acting out of patriotism, hubris, and greed have
placed their fellow countrymen in harm’s way. And now, with global warming, we inhabit a landscape that has become much more dangerous. Grounded in the conviction that we owe a duty to our environment and our fellow man, Wildfire and Americans is more than a depiction of policies gone terribly awry. It is a plea to acknowledge the mercy we owe nature and mankind.

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L'autore:

Roger G. Kennedy has served as director of the National Park Service and director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The author of nine books, he lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Book by Kennedy Roger G

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• Editore: Hill & Wang Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0809065819
• ISBN 13: 9780809065813
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 332