Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam by Fred A. Wilcox,Noam Chomsky PDF

By Fred A. Wilcox,Noam Chomsky

Scorched Earth is the 1st booklet to chronicle the consequences of chemical war at the Vietnamese humans and their setting, the place, even this day, greater than three million people—including 500,000 children—are ailing and death from beginning defects, melanoma, and different health problems that may be at once traced to Agent Orange/dioxin publicity. Weaving first-person money owed with unique study, Vietnam warfare pupil Fred A. Wilcox examines long term results for destiny generations, laying naked the continued enormous tragedy in Vietnam, and demands the us govt to ultimately admit its position in chemical conflict in Vietnam. Wilcox additionally warns readers that until we cease poisoning our air, nutrition, and water provides, the melanoma epidemic within the usa and different nations will in basic terms irritate, and he urgently calls for the chemical brands of Agent Orange to compensate the sufferers in their greed and to prevent utilizing the Earth’s rivers, lakes, and oceans as poisonous waste dumps. Vietnam has selected August 10—the day that the U.S. started spraying Agent Orange on Vietnam—as Agent Orange Day, to commemorate all its voters who have been laid low with the lethal chemical. Scorched Earth might be published upon the 3rd anniversary of today, in honor of all these whose households have suffered, and proceed to undergo, from this tragedy.

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