Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear PollutionAt the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's cottage in the Lakes District; one child in sixty was dying from leukemia in the village closest to the plant. The central question of this eloquently impassioned book is: How can a country that we persist in calling a welfare state consciously risk the lives of its people for profit. |
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... societies, and we are still overawed by the squire, gawkishly eager for a nod or a word. At one time enthusiasm for the common man seemed to be abroad in this land, although we have never been the democrats we claim to be. Now ...
... societies, and we are still overawed by the squire, gawkishly eager for a nod or a word. At one time enthusiasm for the common man seemed to be abroad in this land, although we have never been the democrats we claim to be. Now ...
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... society, a community of goodwill and mutual obligation. For this is, despite all, how Americans persist in viewing England. The same Observer article that describes the flood of toxic chemical wastes from the rest of Europe into Britain ...
... society, a community of goodwill and mutual obligation. For this is, despite all, how Americans persist in viewing England. The same Observer article that describes the flood of toxic chemical wastes from the rest of Europe into Britain ...
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... society, never implicated in its darker side. Marxism, which I will touch upon, has the chic of a modern, brave, and dangerous philosophy, but Marx is unread, and the versions of his thinking with which we are wearied are the ...
... society, never implicated in its darker side. Marxism, which I will touch upon, has the chic of a modern, brave, and dangerous philosophy, but Marx is unread, and the versions of his thinking with which we are wearied are the ...
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... society, and that while the plant developed and assumed its economic role, Britain claimed to be a socialist society. Oddly, these notions are potent enough in the minds of many people to mitigate the offense, as if ferocious plutonium ...
... society, and that while the plant developed and assumed its economic role, Britain claimed to be a socialist society. Oddly, these notions are potent enough in the minds of many people to mitigate the offense, as if ferocious plutonium ...
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Contents
3 | |
PART ONE | 35 |
PART TWO | 141 |
Selected Bibliography | 237 |
Nuclear Bibliography | 258 |
Social Bibliography | 259 |
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