(PDF) Left in the Dust

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Left in the Dust
How Race and Politics Created a Human and Environmental Tragedy in L.A.
by Karen Piper

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• Language: english
• Author: Karen Piper
• ISBN: 9781403969316 (1403969310)
• Release date: July 25, 2006
• Format: hardcover, 240 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

About The Book

An intensely personal story crossed with a political potboiler, Left in the Dust is a unique and passionate account of the city of Los Angeles’s creation, cover-up and inadequate attempts to repair a major environmental catastrophe. Owens River, which once fed Owens Lake, was diverted away from the lake to supply the faucets and sprinklers of Los Angeles. The dry lakebed now contains a dust saturated with toxic heavy metals, which are blown from the lake and inhaled by unsuspecting citizens throughout the Midwest, causing major health issues. Karen Piper, one of the victims who grew up breathing that dust, reveals the shocking truth behind this tragedy and examines how waste and pollution are often neglected to encourage urban growth, while poor, non-white, and rural areas are forgotten or sacrificed.

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