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Power Over People | 
 enlarge | Author: Louise B. Young
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 676893
Media: Paperback
Edition: Updated
Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0195075781
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.189
EAN: 9780195075786
ASIN: 0195075781
Publication Date: September 3, 1992
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Product Description
For most of us, life is spent in one vast electromagnetic field. In the office we sit in front of computer terminals, at home, in front of the television. We cook our meals in microwave ovens, trim our hedges with electric shears, illuminate our houses, workplaces, and streets with incandescent and fluorescent lighting. And until only recently, the potential hazards imposed by life in the shadows of high-voltage power lines have hardly been considered.
First published in 1973, Power Over People was the first book to address the frightening potential side effects of our dependence on electrical energy. Now brought up to date with a new introduction, and including an epilogue that offers the most current studies and findings available today, this classic book is more timely than ever. Louise Young here lays bare the short-sighted, materialistic policies of the electric power industry, showing how power and the conglomerates that produce it have clearly won out over rights and safety concerns of people. She provides disturbing documentary evidence that demonstrates how long-term exposure to radiation from power lines can cause brain cancer, childhood leukemia, as well as damage to the nervous system. Through the course of the book we come to understand that what is often blindly accepted as "progress" can mean the inexorable advance of environmental destruction and the withering--rather than enhancing--of the quality of life in America.
Based on a case-study of a small, rural community in Ohio, Young shows in compelling fashion what happens when a grass-roots group of concerned citizens resists the construction of the world's largest electrical transmission towers, literally in their own backyards. Her story of their ultimate failure becomes a stinging indictment of indifferent government agencies and the lax laws that fail to protect the environment.
Lively, readable, and, at times, even shocking, this is a book for environmentally-minded and safety-conscious readers of the 1990s. Its wealth of information, its incisive analysis, and its bold confrontation of facts we can no longer afford to ignore make Power Over People a book everyone should read and reflect upon.
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Living Under Powerlines -Imminent Danger- February 19, 2000
B. beerbower (Georgia, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Since there was not a review on this book, I felt COMPELLED to write one. This is a must read for anyone living near High-tension Powerlines or near a Power Substation. This book is well written, with documentation of events that everyone should know about. Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) have been in the news for many years. The implications of the danger of EMF's and the Health-cancer threat is just too great to ignore. In this book the author documents real life experiences of people who have experienced "SHOCKING" events that have occurred to them after High-tension power lines came through their properties. These people lived under or near these lines. One of the most "SHOCKING" (literally) was the fact that the owner was unable to paint his tin roof without getting shocked until he had run a chain down his pants leg to keep him grounded! Big Business has spent a great deal of time and money to cover-up stories like this. I live in a state where power companies are very big business. Not only are they big business they have the legislators on their side. Congress has given Utilities the power of "eminent domain" where they can build these high tension power lines where ever they please. The people in this book were affected by this law that allows Utility Companies to condemn land. The people in this book didn't want power lines on their property, but power lines they got. Some paid for these lines with their lives. When this book was first published in 1973, one of the major power companies in my state bought every copy of this book they could find. Today, this book is still hard to find in many of my State's Public Libraries even though the author's other books are readily available. Does this tell you something? Power Companies feel very threatened by this book? This alone should make everyone rush out and buy it. Read it, share it, give a copy to your local library, community planning committee, and congressmen - urge them to read it. It is definitely a keeper- The orginial version (1973) has lots of "shocking" pictures, the updated version (1992) has a wonderful review by Stewart Udall with a 20 year follow-up on the families from the original, some of whom developed cancer. If you liked this book, I would recommend reading several books by Paul Brodeur. "Currents of Death," and "The Great Power Line Cover-up."
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