The People`s Republic of Chemicals, Jacobs Chip, Kelly William J.

In vivid, gonzo prose blending first-person reportage with exhaustive research and a sense of karma, Kelly and Jacobs describe Chinas ancient love affair with coal, Bill Clintons blunders cutting free-trade deals enabling the U.S. to export manufacturing emissions to Asia in a shift that pilloried the Wests middle class, Communist Party manipulation of eco-statistics, the horror of cancer villages, the deception of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and spellbinding peasant revolts against cancer-spreading plants involving thousands in mostly-censored mel es. Ending with Chinas monumental coal-bases decried by climatologists as a global warming dagger, The Peoples Republic of Chemicals names names and emphasizes humanity over bloodless statistics in a classic sure to ruffle feathers as an indictment of money as the real green that not even Al Gore can deny.