Description
An unflinching collection of investigative journalism from Jeffrey St. Clair, co-editor of CounterPunch, exploring the hidden environmental and political crises of our time.
In Born Under a Bad Sky, award-winning journalist Jeffrey St. Clair guides the reader through a landscape of ecological horror and resilience in our contemporary world. With prose described as being “on a par with Mailer’s Armies of the Night“, St. Clair delivers urgent dispatches from the frontlines of the “war on the Earth”.
The book exposes environmental devastation in locations often ignored by mainstream media:
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A visit to a glowing nuclear plant in North Carolina backwoods.
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An exploration of Cancer Alley, where toxic enterprises are hidden behind the veil of Homeland Security.
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Reporting on the world’s most contaminated site, the leaking H-bomb factory at Hanford.
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Confronting the “White Death” in Iraq, detailing the devastating environmental legacy of modern warfare.
St. Clair confronts powerful environmental villains, from political figures like Dick Cheney and James Watt to surprising targets such as Al Gore and the mainstream environmental movement itself, which he critiques as being “leashed to the neoliberal politics of the Democratic Party”. The book is not only a “savage philippic” but also an homage to the planet, offering a sense of hope as a “new green resistance is taking root” across the country, from the wreckage of New Orleans to the imperiled canyons of the Colorado.
Author Jeffrey St. Clair
Publisher AK Press (A K Pr Distribution)
Series Counterpunch Series
Publication Date December 1, 2007, or August 30, 2008
ISBN-13 9781904859703
ISBN-10 1904859704
Format Paperback
Pages 460 Pages
Dimensions (Approx.) 8.9″ (H) x 6.1″ (W) x 1.1″ (D)
Weight (Approx.) 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
Condition Good Condition, Like New
