Environment

Rolf Halden

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English

Bloomsbury Publishing
02 April 2020

Personal & public health; Mathematics & Sciences; Pollution & threats to the environment; Social impact of environmental issues

Series: Object Lessons

Finalist for the Big Other Book Award, Nonfiction Category 2021

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

What is the environment, this elusive object that impacts us so profoundly--our odds to be born; the way we look, feel, and function; and how long and comfortable we may live? The environment is not only everything we see around us but also, at a lesser scale, a hailstorm of molecules large and small that constantly penetrates our bodies, simultaneously nourishing and threatening our health. The concept of oneness with our surroundings urges a reckoning of what we are doing to ‘the environment,’ and consequently, what we are doing to ourselves.

By taking us through this journey of questioning, Rolf Halden’s Environment empowers readers with new knowledge and a heightened appreciation of how our daily lifestyle decisions are impacting the places we occupy, our health, and humanity’s prospect of survival.

With illustrations by Griffin Finke.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

By: Rolf Halden
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 164mm, Width: 118mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 171g
ISBN: 9781501361906
ISBN 10: 1501361902
Series: Object Lessons
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 02 April 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface 1. Environmental Beginnings 2. The Stuff We Are Made Of 3. Life in a Bubble 4. Turning Petroleum into People 5. Running Out of Ink for Human Blueprints 6. Tracing Rachel Carson’s Path 7. Regrettable Substitutions 8. From Tobacco to Teflon Babies 9. Yesterday’s Fuel Becomes Today’s Forgetfulness 10. The High Price of Meat 11. Plastic Hangover 12. Shrapnel in Human Eyes and Bodies 13. Diagnosing Humanity 14. One with the Environment Epilogue Acknowledgements Notes Index

Rolf Halden, PhD, PE, is Director of the Biodesign Center for Environmental Health Engineering, Biodesign Institute, Professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, and Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University, USA.

Reviews for Environment

A passionate and encompassing personal assessment of our origins and dependency on the natural world. Rolf Halden offers a dire warning grounded in his career in environmental pollution control: The world’s most advanced economies can and should enact more effective policies to protect human health from the hazards of industrial chemistry. * Leland H. Hartwell, Nobel Laureate, Director of the Biodesign Pathfinder Center, Arizona State University, USA *