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Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution

Marilynne Robinson

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Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution

Mother Country won the National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction in 1989. At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's cottage in the Lakes District; one child in sixty was dying from leukemia in the village closest to the plant. The central question of this eloquently impassioned book is: How can a country that we persist in calling a welfare state consciously risk the lives of its people for profit.

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year
2011
ISBN-13
9781429944731
Genre
Politics & Current Affairs
Topics
Nuclear pollutionBritish welfare stateEnvironmental hazards

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