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.
- Author
- Marilynne Robinson
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 978-0-374-21361-9
- EAN
- 9780374213619
- Genres
- essays, politics
- Release date
- 1989
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