Loving this Planet
- Authors
- Caldicott, Helen
- Publisher
- The New Press
- Tags
- politics , science
- ISBN
- 9781595588081
- Date
- 2012-09-04T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.47 MB
- Lang
- en
Ever since quitting her job teaching pediatrics at Harvard Medical School in 1980, Helen Caldicott has worked tirelessly for a safe, sustainable, nuclear-free planet, most recently by hosting a weekly radio show featuring environmentalists and leading activists from around the globe. Together with some of the most brilliant thinkers and inspiring advocates of our time, Caldicott--whom Meryl Streep has called "my inspiration to speak out"--scrutinizes our unsustainable dependence on nuclear energy; explores how the United States could transition to renewable energy; and raises awareness about a host of other planetary issues, from deforestation and sea-level rise to nuclear arms and the potential health effects of cell phone radiation.