Report Card
Kane, Karen Erdman and Matt
REPORT CARD Karen Erdman and Matt Kane Our Nuclear World NUCLEAR BATTLEFIELDS: GLOBAL LINKS IN THE ARMS RACE by William M. Arkin and Richard W. Fieldhouse Ballinger Publishing Company, 54...
...To reverse Africa's decline, say Brown and Wolf, nations of the world should launch a program more ambitious than the Marshall Plan...
...And agriculturalists should investigate soil-conserving farm methods, including traditional savanna and new no-till approaches...
...The report assumes that fertility rates in Africa will decline once governments commit themselves to family planning...
...Rather, the strains of Africa's population explosion are changing land-use patterns and breaking down the environment's delicate support systems...
...all of them are on the front lines...
...This book—actually a collection of Phillip L. PolakofFs syndicated columns—describes how various workplace hazards affect the human body and suggests what can be done to minimize them...
...reproductive hazards...
...Press Associates, Inc., 806 15th Street NW, Suite 632, Washington, DC 20005...
...occupational stress...
...The authors consider the World Bank a likely candidate to lead this revitaliza-tion—a questionable prospect given that organization's emphasis on large-scale, capital-intensive development projects...
...African governments should abandon the artificially low food prices that discourage farming...
...Blueprint for Africa WORLDWATCH PAPER: REVERSING AFRICA'S DECLINE by Lester R. Brown and Edward C. Wolf Worldwatch Institute, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036...
...Polakoff writes from an activist, pro-labor perspective...
...But Brown and Wolf are quick to add that no effort will succeed without direction from Africa's governments and people...
...81 pp...
...As forests and grasslands are destroyed, rainwater that plants once recycled into the atmosphere is now lost to rivers and oceans...
...The appendices pinpoint the location of the infrastructure's elements in each country, from tiny radar bases and communication towers to massive military installations...
...The authors' research, sponsored by the independent Worldwatch Institute with funding from the United Nations, suggests that increased demands for fuelwood and farmland have had the effect of reducing rainfall in Africa...
...Perhaps most immediately useful to activists are the appendices and reference sections, which make up more than half the book...
...14.95...
...Geographic and subject indices and a glossary of acronyms serve as guides to the text, and lengthy bibliographical information points the reader toward an even more complete nuclear education...
...Scores of nations are linked, wittingly and unwittingly...
...health maintenance organizations, and almost every other conceivable issue relating to job safety and health...
...REPORT CARD Karen Erdman and Matt Kane Our Nuclear World NUCLEAR BATTLEFIELDS: GLOBAL LINKS IN THE ARMS RACE by William M. Arkin and Richard W. Fieldhouse Ballinger Publishing Company, 54 Church Street, Cambridge, MA 02138...
...William M. Arkin and Richard W. Field-house believe peace activists must do more than think in abstract terms about the Bomb...
...Population growth must be slowed, forests replanted, and grasslands restored...
...232 pp...
...This, in turn, leads to famine, suffering, and even the drought itself...
...Drought isn't the root cause of crisis in Africa, and emergency food relief isn't the solution, say the authors of this report...
...Workers have a responsibility, too," however...
...Polakoff explains in easily understandable terms how the human body works...
...In predicting how a nuclear war would be waged—and in plotting a strategy to prevent one-workers for peace should understand crucial issues of geographic access and position, as well as such specialized disciplines as time-measurement technology...
...Arkin and Fieldhouse stress that weapons arsenals form only a small part of the global nuclear infrastructure...
...Arkin and Fieldhouse warn that the tentacles of the nuclear war-fighting complex—early warning and surveillance systems, civil defense plans, weapons production and testing programs—are extending their reach every day...
...Employers must change "the machines that are the real culprits," he states...
...Polakoff discusses carcinogenic, nerve-poisoning, and other toxic chemicals...
...Hope for Africa lies in massive efforts to slow population growth and protect the environment, write Lester R. Brown and Edward C. Wolf...
...Ending Job Hazards WORK AND HEALTH by Phillip L. Polakoff, M.D...
...They must become informed" about their rights and protections under the law...
...The book is marred by repetition and bad puns, but Work and Health will help workers protect themselves by giving them ammunition for change...
...For this reason, they have compiled Nuclear Battlefields, which catalogs and analyzes "factors that would determine what a nuclear war would look like, how it would progress, and what its targets would be...
...The infrastructure knows no boundaries and observes no borders...
...the battlefields are virtually everywhere," the authors observe...
...9.45...
...He rebukes those companies that consider personal protective equipment—respirators, for example—as a first line of defense against hazards...
...328 pp...
...alcoholism and drug abuse...
...physical perils such as noise, heat, cold, and light...
...But it leaves unexamined some key issues behind population growth, especially the role of women in society and economic incentives that promote large families...
...He includes case histories, statistics, and a list of resources...
Vol. 49 • September 1985 • No. 9
