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Summary: Stunning!
Review: This book was truly stunning. I felt terrible for the residents of Libby, and just can not believe that this could have gone unanswered for so long. Even for a non-environmentalist, this is a superb book!
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Summary: Unfortunately, I can believe this happened and still does!
Review: You would think a little town in Montana, named Libby could not possibly be interesting or draw the attention of the nation (and the world). Yet it does, and will continue to do so. These two newspaper journalists do an excellent job of pulling together all the various threads of the story of Libby. The corporations involved, the miners and their families, the government agencies that did nothing, and the ones that finally got around to it (only to be told to back off by the Bush administration). It's one thing when men were mining way back in the forties and fifties, and even if it was thought or known that the variety of abestos were dangerous if breathed in, not enough was known to control or stop it, and the miners back then may not have taken the information seriously as they needed the jobs for the care of their families.But it's a whole different ballpark, when it's their kids who are being impacted by lung disease...because they played in a ballpark, where Grace & Company dumped their waste/tailings. Or when the men know their wives will die of the same thing through bringing their clothes home to be washed. How very presient of Grace to put itself into bankruptcy, just before this information became widely known, through Libby's activist, Gayla and Les. But wait a minute, wasn't Grace one of the companies written about in A Civil Action? They did not care much about killing a bunch of little children with leukemia in their drinking water, so why would anything in LIbby conern them. It would really help if someone put on the Internet, known companies that are placing their workers at risk, so that we can all look at them from time to time and decide whether we want to do business with them or whether we want to buy their products. We have fiberglass in our 1950's made home, but now I wonder what that fiberglass replaced and where it is in my home. I am sure that many will feel the same after reading this book. Kudos to Gayla and Les, as well as the two reporters/authors... Karen Sadler,
Science Education,
University of Pittsburgh
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