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July 2014
On Sale: July 9, 2014
356 pages
ISBN: 1940207258
EAN: 9781940207258
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Non-Fiction
Maverick environmental writers William J. Kelly and Chip Jacobs follow up their acclaimed Smogtown
with a provocative examination of China’s ecological calamity already imperling a warming planet.
Toxic smog most people figured was obsolete needlessly kills as many there as the 9/11 attacks every
day, while sometimes Grand Canyon-sized drifts of industrial particles aloft on the winds rain down
ozone and waterway-poisoning mercury in America.
In vivid, gonzo prose blending first-person reportage with exhaustive research and a sense of karma,
Kelly and Jacobs describe China’s ancient love affair with coal, Bill Clinton’s blunders cutting
free-trade deals enabling the U.S. to "export" manufacturing emissions to Asia in a shift that
pilloried the West's middle class, Communist Party manipulation of eco-statistics, the horror of
"Cancer Villages," the deception of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and spellbinding “peasant revolts”
against cancer-spreading plants involving thousands in mostly censored melees. Ending with China’s
monumental coal-bases decried by climatologists as a global warming dagger, The People's Republic of
Chemicals names names and stresses humans over bloodless numbers in a classic sure to ruffle
feathers as an indictment of money as the real green that not even Al Gore can deny.
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