Geographies of nowhere : Smeltertown and the rising wave of environmental refugees
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969770955-MIT.pdf
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Author(s)
Pierre-Louis, Kendra
Advisor(s)
Thomas Levenson.
Date Issued
2016
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
We don't often think of modern American communities as places that disappear. But lead pollution erased the tiny Texas community of Smeltertown from the map. And Smeltertown isn't alone. Across America we've scraped communities from the landscape, smudged them from our memories. Pollution made these places unfit for human habitation. It turned the residents of these communities into environmental refugees. Another kind of pollution climate change - threatens to push even more people from their homes. That these communities are gone is tragic. That there are billions of climate change refugees poised to join these environmental refugees is terrifying. What can we do to stop this tide? What can lessons can we learn from the towns that have already disappeared? What lessons can we learn from Smeltertown?
Description
Thesis: S.M. in Science Writing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Humanities, Graduate Program in Science Writing, 2016.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. "September 2016."
Includes bibliographical references (page 22).
Subjects
Graduate Program in Science Writing.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Graduate Program in Science Writing
MIT Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies
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