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04.24: Boom, Bust, Boom: A Story about Copper, the Metal That Runs the World
2014-03-18 00:36:19| Powells Books Events Calendar
Bill Carter began Boom, Bust, Boom (Schaffner) — an account of the all-pervasive presence of copper in our lives and its cost on our health, economy, and environment — with a simple personal discovery: the presence of arsenic in his own backyard garden. Carter connects the dots from his humble garden to the CEOs of the global copper industry, confronting a resource that is so vital yet which has the potential to cause horrendous and irrevocable damage to our planet and ourselves.
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