Book description
Pesticides and Pollution examines the problems of pollution of air,
land, river, and the sea, by herbicides, pesticides, sewage, industrial
effluents, gases, radiation, leakages, over-drainage, mistakes and
mismanagement, in Britain to-day.
From an objective and scientific standpoint, Dr. Mellanby examines the
problems of pollution of air, land, river, and the sea, by herbicides,
pesticides, sewage, industrial effluents, gases, radiation, leakages,
over-drainage, mistakes and mismanagement, in Britain to-day. He sets
out to placate neither farmers nor naturalists, but to explain in each
case what is happening, to point to both dangers and practical
necessities, and to discuss what steps should be taken.
Dr. Mellanby is Director of the Nature Conservancy's Monks Wood
Experimental Station, was head of the Entomology department at
Rothamsted, and for many years before that did research in medical
entomology both in Britain and the tropics. 'Kenneth Mellanby has
written a great book. It is calm, logical and dispassionate, but deeply
moving and disturbing. When facts can be given with precision, he states
them. If he can explain them, he does so: if he cannot, he says so. This
book deals with an immense problem - man's pollution of the planet he
lives on. It is written with immense understanding and immense fairness.
It makes fascinating, absorbing reading.'
British Medical Journal
'Here at last we have a handbook that any emotionally inclined person
should study before ranting about chemicals; a dispassionate,
well-thought-out reference book. It enables us also to understand some
of the problems underlying our survival.'
Country Life
'Dr. Mellanby has written a first-class book which is a delight to read.'
Annals of Applied Biology
