Love Canal: and the Birth of the Environmental Health Movement / Edition 3

by Lois Marie Gibbs

Overview

Today, “Love Canal” is synonymous with the struggle for environmental health and justice. But in 1972, when Lois Gibbs moved there with her husband and new baby, it was simply a modest neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York. How did this community become the poster child for toxic disasters? How did Gibbs and her neighbors start a national movement that continues to this day? What do their efforts teach us about current environmental health threats and how to prevent them? Love Canal is Gibbs’ original account of the landmark case, now updated with insights gained over three decades.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781597267922
Publisher:	Island Press
Publication date:	11/18/2010
Edition description:	Third Edition, Third Edition, Third Edition
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Lois Gibbs is the Executive Director of the Center for Health, Environment,and Justice. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including The Goldman Environmental Prize and The Heinz Award, and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. A frequent public speaker, Gibbs has appeared on 60 Minutes, 20/20, Oprah Winfrey, Good Morning America, and many other television and radio programs.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Growth of a Powerful New Environmental Health Movement 1

Chapter 1 The Problem at Love Canal 19

Chapter 2 The Swale Theory 67

Chapter 3 The Killing Ground 125

Chapter 4 The Motel People 150

Chapter 5 Still Studying the Problem 188

Afterword 203

Acknowledgments 221

About the Author 225

Index 227

Editorial Reviews

"What I knew of the environmental disaster was taken from books, newspaper and magazine articles and, above all, the courageous first-person accounts by a housewife/mother/survivor of the Love Canal disaster, Lois Marie Gibbs. Her Love Canal: My Story appeared in 1982, after a lengthy siege of legal activism on the part of Mrs. Gibbs and others. How brave they were, to combat such high-placed, wealthy, and conscienceless adversaries!"

Joyce Carol Oates