Troublemakers by Kevin Dunion, Edinburgh University Press, 拢15.99, ISBN 0748617817
Crimes Against Nature by Karl Jacoby, University of California Press, $21.95/拢14.95, ISBN 0520239091
The Silver Lining: The benefits of natural disasters by Seth Reice, Princeton, $15.95/拢10.95, ISBN0691113688 Reviewed by Maggie McDonald
HOW big is the environment? The whole world? Or your backyard? Or, as Kevin Dunion sees it, both? He takes the slogan “act local, think global” very seriously in his account of Scottish environmental injustices in Troublemakers.
The greedy importers of garbage to fill the dumps that plague Scottish neighbourhoods are pursuing profit across national boundaries. Roads…
