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This 3 page paper is a reaction to the book “When Smoke Ran Like Water,” about environmental pollution, written by Devra Davis. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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sheer greed, human beings seem incapable of grasping the fact that poor conditions in the environment can have a huge impact on human health. In her book, Davis outlines her
life-long battle to bring the serious issue of the health impact of environmental pollution to public attention. Discussion Davis was born and raised in Donora, Pennsylvania, a mountain town where
the only industry was the steel and zinc mills. Everyone who lived there worked in the mills or supported someone who did so; the place was filthy with coal dust
and stank, but for all the residents, it was simply normal to live as they did. In 1948, however, a cold air layer settled over the valley, trapping all the
pollutants inside. For four days, the Donorans breathed air polluted with the junk spewing from the smokestacks of the mills; 20 people died and the town came to a standstill.
But that wasnt the worst; in the coming months, others who had become sick during the fog died, but the timing of the deaths made it easy to ignore the
possible connection between the two, and things went back to "normal." For the authors family, however, living in a poisonous soup for years had disastrous results: all of her family
members have (or had) respiratory or cardiac problems, along with most of the rest of the town. But still, nobody did anything. Then in 1952, London was blanketed with
the same type of "killing fog," but this time the disaster happened in the worlds largest city at the time, and in one week, 4,703 people died. The death rate
was far greater than normal and there was only one logical explanation: the intense polluted fog was a killer. But Harold Macmillan, who was minister of housing at the time,
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