Wild Earth 6, no. 1
In Wild Earth 6, no. 1 Bill McKibben imagines new organizations like “MACHO” (Manly and Courageous Hunters Organization), Stephanie Mills visits Leopold’s shack, and Daniel Dancer seeks a deep photography ethic.
acid rain
Air Pollution and Acid Rainfall Damage the Ecosystem in Mount Mitchell
In 1988 scientists accept evidence that industrialization in the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys are to blame for increases in acid rainfall in Mount Mitchell, North Carolina, creating an environment where trees, bushes, and wildlife cannot survive.
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Norwegian Government Implements Carbon Tax on Emissions due to Acid Rain
In the early 1970s industrialization in Norway causes acid rainfall which damage indigenous spruce forests. As a result, the government implements a market-based carbon tax on fossil fuels in order to control pollution levels and decrease acid rainfall.
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Earth First! 5, no. 4
This issue of Earth First! features the demonstration against the Canyonlands Nuke Dump (for nuclear waste) by a group of EF!ers. Steve Smith and Barbara Steele discuss the demonstration for wilderness in Montana, R. F. Mueller and Mona Saxena describe how Swedish technocrats are a threat to a salmon river, and the effects of acid rain are problematized.
Earth First! 6, no. 5
In this issue of Earth First! George Wuerthner and Reed Noss present designs for an ecosystem preserve in Montana and a vast forest wilderness in Ohio. Tom Stoddard contributes an essay on sacred cows in Ethiopia, Andrew Bard Schmookler questions whether anarchy should be a goal within the environmental movement, and Kevin Proescholdt discusses acid rain.
Economic Development in Chongqing, China, Increases Air Pollution and Causes Acid Rain
Beginning in 1980, economic development and industrialization in Chongqing, China, has caused the energy production and consumption of coal products to rapidly increase. At the same time, pollution was on the rise.
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Karabash: The City of Pollution
Arcadia, 2013, no. 14
Science and International Policy: Regimes and Nonregimes in Global Governance
Introduces nonregimes into the study of global governance, and compares successes with failures in the formation of environmental treaties.
Science and Politics in the International Environment
This book seeks to explain what science and politics are in the context of environmental policymaking and how the interplay of science and politics influences international environmental policy.
Smelter Smoke in North America: The Politics of Transborder Pollution
Chronicles how industry developed a continental perspective in a shared regional space, the mineralized West, and how successful efforts of governments and citizens to protect the environment evolved.