Polluting For Pleasure

Download or read book Polluting for Pleasure written by Andre Mele and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Silent Spring and Unsafe at Any Speed comes this frightening, landmark environmental study. The message: seemingly innocuous recreational boats, particularly outboards, are polluting as much as all the cars and trucks in America; and the marine industry has been holding its breath, hoping that nobody notices. Polluting for Pleasure begins with the author accidentally discovering that pleasure boats have been spilling oil into the environment on a magnitude that is staggering. In addition to being 80 times more polluting than automobile engines, the more than 8 million two-cycle outboard engines put more oil into American waters than 15 Exxon Valdez oil spills, annually! Oil, like dirt collecting on the sides of a bathtub, contaminates the shores and marshlands of our lakes and rivers, the cradles of all marine life. This important new book not only studies the problem of pollution from powerboats and the environmental effects, it also offers constructive suggestions for alleviating the problem.

Download or read book Environmental Health Perspectives written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cruising World written by and published by . This book was released on 1995-01 with total page 2200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Woodenboat written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ethics of Voting written by Jason Brennan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing is more integral to democracy than voting. Most people believe that every citizen has the civic duty or moral obligation to vote, that any sincere vote is morally acceptable, and that buying, selling, or trading votes is inherently wrong. In this provocative book, Jason Brennan challenges our fundamental assumptions about voting, revealing why it is not a duty for most citizens--in fact, he argues, many people owe it to the rest of us not to vote. Bad choices at the polls can result in unjust laws, needless wars, and calamitous economic policies. Brennan shows why voters have duties to make informed decisions in the voting booth, to base their decisions on sound evidence for what will create the best possible policies, and to promote the common good rather than their own self-interest. They must vote well--or not vote at all. Brennan explains why voting is not necessarily the best way for citizens to exercise their civic duty, and why some citizens need to stay away from the polls to protect the democratic process from their uninformed, irrational, or immoral votes. In a democracy, every citizen has the right to vote. This book reveals why sometimes it's best if they don't. In a new afterword, "How to Vote Well," Brennan provides a practical guidebook for making well-informed, well-reasoned choices at the polls.

Download or read book The Love of Pleasure. A Sermon, Etc written by Thomas BEST (Incumbent of St. James's, Sheffield.) and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Public Works written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: