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Book Description

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.

Review Quotes

"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, author of "The Falls", "The Tattooed Girl", and "Little Bird of Heaven"

Contents

Introduction: The Growth of a Powerful New Environmental Health Movement
 
Chapter 1. The Problem at Love Canal
Chapter 2. The Swale Theory
Chapter 3. The Killing Ground
Chapter 4. The Motel People
Chapter 5. Still Studying the Problem
 
Afterword
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index