Status Updates From Environment: The Science Be...

This book writes science as science *journalism* & science *communication* rather than as lecture material to be memorized. This is a distinction of presentation that is becoming more common now, but is rarely so well done as this. I am VERY impressed with the clear and succinct articulation, the ability to appeal to and not shirk from emotional and sensory capacities of readers, and the breadth of material coverage

“On days of poor air quality throughout the 1990s, residence wore face masks on the streets, teachers kept students inside recess, and outdoor sports events were canceled. Children drawing pictures would use brown crayons to color the sky. each year thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of hospital visits were blamed on pollution. Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes called his capital ‘Makesicko City.’”