Reference Reviews

Reference for Students

Pollution. Edited by Debra A. Miller. Detroit, Mich.: Greenhaven Press Thomson Gale, 2007. 1 vol. 219 p. $36.20. ISBN 10: 0-7377-3727-1; 13: 978-0-7377-3727-1

Al Gore's documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" won an Academy Award, and he was honored with a Nobel Peace Prize for bringing the environment front and center. Students will read about global warming, air and water issues and the corporations in the U.S. who have been slow in implementing energy efficiencies and developing emissions–reducing technologies. Chapters with debate issues include "Are Air and Water Pollution Serious Problems?", "Are Corporations Polluting the Environment?", "Are U.S. Pollution Regulations Effective?" and "What Are the Emerging Solutions to Environmental Pollution?" While others are to blame, too, it will be our students today who must work to curb the problems of pollution because they are living in a country whose manufacturing and greenhouse gas auto emissions are creating much of the problems discussed in this book.