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Canada's deadly secret
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- Book Synopsis
- Canada's Deadly Secret chronicles the struggle over Saskatchewan's uranium mining, the front end of the global nuclear system. It digs into impacts on Aboriginal rights, environmental health and the effect of free trade, tracing Saskatchewan's pivotal role in nuclear proliferation and the spread of contamination and cancer. Harding shows that nuclear energy cannot address global warming, nor is there a "peaceful atom." The book goes inside biased public inquiries; it exposes PR campaigns of half-truths and untruths and the penetration of nuclear propaganda into our schools. Canada's Deadly Secret also highlights successes in holding back nuclear expansion. It presents an alternative, ecological vision for a sustainable future that not only takes up the invitation coming from renewable energies, it also links energy, environment, health, peace and sovereignty.
- About The Author
- Jim Harding is past director of the School of Human Justice at the University of Regina. He served as inner-city representative on Regina City Council and as mayor of the Village of Fort San. He is the founding board chair of the Qu'Appelle Valley Centre for the Arts and a founding director of the Qu'Appelle Valley Environmental Association. Harding was involved in the formation of the Student Union for Peace Action, the early NDP and the Combined University Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. He has authored several books, including After Iraq (2004) and Canada's Deadly Secret (2007), and he edited Social Policy and Social Justice (1995), and has written widely in newspapers, journals, and magazines. Historian Bryan Palmer calls Jim Harding "one of Western Canada's leading New Leftists." For Jim, writing and activism have always been interwoven: "Beliefs based in ideology always let me down. Without more fully, concretely understanding what is happening I would have been greatly limited in both strategic and tactical foresight. Without learning the importance of critical reflection, early on, I would never have been able to stay in movement activism for the long game."
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781552662267
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Fernwood, (10 October 2008)
- Number of Pages
- 272
- Weight
- 358 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 23 x 15 x 2 mm
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