Farewell, King Coal
From Industrial Triumph to Climatic Disaster
$196.65
- Hardcover
246 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2018
Summary
When the last deep coal mine in Britain closed in 2016 it marked the end of the most transformative era in the history of mankind. In writing this account of the rise and decline of the coal industry and its effects on the health of the miners, of those who worked with coal products and of almost all of us who have breathed in the pollution from its combustion, Professor Seaton points to the often hidden adverse consequences of transformative technologies. He also traces the early history …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780460772 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780460775 |
| Author: | Anthony Seaton |
| Publisher: | Liverpool University Press |
| Imprint: | Liverpool University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 246 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2018 |
| Weight: | 709g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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Critics Review
‘For the layman, this is a genuinely interesting and valuable book: it fills in a lot of information, and offers intensely relevant writing on issues which face everyone… It takes a wide view of its subject in its history (mining and transport of coal), its impact on our society (the industrial revolution, the gradual emergence of modern lifestyles powered by coal and energy from coal), the technological issues involved in finding, mining and transporting a difficult material, the growing modern realisation of the price society pays for the benefits of a coal-driven economy, and not least the problems for the human organism that a society dependent on coal faces… Not sensationally, but calmly and and clearly, this book presents to the non-specialist a welcome opportunity to sift through the welter of conflicting news and comment of every day and reflect on the need for a re-alignment of society from the days when King Coal was in the ascendant, and the problems lay in the future.’
University of Edinburgh Journal
About The Author
Anthony Seaton
Professor Seaton has worked as a chest physician and environmental medicine academic in West Virginia, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. He has been involved in research into lung diseases and air pollution for most of his career. His other publications include several medical textbooks and many popular essays in the Scottish Review.
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