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Guests of the Nation: People of Ireland Versus the Multinationals (Earthscan Library Collection: Environmental and Resource Economics Set)
Guests of the Nation People of Ireland Versus the Multinationals - Earthscan Library Collection: Environmental and Resource Economics Set Author:Robert Allen, Tara Jones The Ireland of the romantic past with its thatched cottages, rural traditions and literary grace has changed beyond all recognition in the last twenty-five years. It is still one of the least polluted countries in the northern hemisphere, but only just. That, too, could change dramatically in the very near future. — Ireland's economy has develop... more »ed with even fewer planning safeguards than those of most of its neighbors. This book describes the rapid growth in the number of extremely dangerous chemical-industrial plants and how the Irish government has given the multinationals almost carte-blanche to do what they like, in secrecy and virtually without accountability.
But the Irish people are accustomed to resisting and the authors write of the ways in which the chemical companies, despite government co-operation, have not had it all their own way. The companies are facing an increasingly angry public who refuse to allow their health and even their lives to be jeopardized for the sake of other people's. profit. What is happening in Ireland concerns us all--pollution has a way of crossing borders.« less