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Unwelcome Harvest: Agriculture and Pollution (Earthscan Library Collection: Natural Resource Management Set)
Unwelcome Harvest Agriculture and Pollution - Earthscan Library Collection: Natural Resource Management Set
Author: Gordon R. Conway, Jules Pretty
Agriculture Pollutes: pesticides can destroy wildlife and some are toxic to humans; some fungicides and herbicides cause cancer. Nitrates result in the contamination of drinking water and produce the risk of the ?blue-baby? syndrome in infants and of stomach cancer in adults. Agriculture produces methane, ammonia, nitrous oxide and the products ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781849710213
ISBN-10: 184971021X
Pages: 676
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Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Book Type: Hardcover
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