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Книга Bottled and Sold Peter H. Gleick

Bottled and Sold

The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water

Автор: Peter H. Gleick
Език: Английски език
Корици: С твърди корици
Издател: Island Press
Наличност: Външен склад
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Peter Gleick knows water. A world-renowned freshwater expert, Gleick is a MacArthur Foundation 'geni...

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Автор
Peter H. Gleick
Език
Английски език
Корици
Книга - С твърди корици
Издадена
2010
страници
232
EAN
9781597265287
ISBN
1597265284
Enbook ID
04831857
Издател
Island Press
Теглоt
465
Размери
160 x 234 x 19

Пълно описание

Peter Gleick knows water. A world-renowned freshwater expert, Gleick is a MacArthur Foundation 'genius', and according to the BBC, an environmental visionary. And he drinks from the tap. Why don't the rest of us? "Bottled and Sold" shows how water went from being a free natural resource to one of the most successful commercial products of the last one hundred years - and why we are poorer for it. It's a big story and water is big business. Every second of every day in the United States, a thousand people buy a plastic bottle of commercially produced water, and every second of every day a thousand more throw one of those bottles away. That adds up to more than thirty billion bottles a year and tens of billions of dollars. Have we simply been hoodwinked by corporate executives or are there legitimate reasons to buy all those bottles? With a scientist's eye and a natural storyteller's wit, Gleick investigates whether claims about the relative safety, convenience, and taste of bottled vs. tap hold water. And he exposes the true reasons we've turned to the bottle, from fear-mongering by business interests and our own vanity to the breakdown of public systems and global inequities. Jewel-encrusted 'designer' H2O may be laughable, but the debate over commodifying water is deadly serious. It comes down to society's choices about the human right to water, the role of government and free markets, the importance of being 'green', and fundamental values. Gleick gets to the heart of the bottled water craze, exploring what it means for our most basic necessity to become a luxury.

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