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Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution

At 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.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 272
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-374-21361-9
  • EAN
  • 9780374213619
  • Genres
  • essays, politics
  • Release date
  • 1989