Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles 洛杉矶污染的历史(ISBN=9781585678600) 在线下载 pdf mobi 2025 epub 电子版

　　The smog beast wafted into downtown Los Angeles on July 26,

1943. Nobody knew what it was. Secretaries rubbed their eyes.

Traffic cops seemed to disappear in the mysterious haze. Were

Japanese saboteurs responsible? A reckless factory? The truth was

much worse--it came from within, from Southern California's

burgeoning car-addicted, suburban lifestyle.

Smogtown is the story of pollution, progress, and how an

optimistic people confronted the epic struggle against airborne

poisons barraging their hometowns. With wit, verve, and a fresh

look at history, California based journalists Chip Jacobs and

William J. Kelly highlight the bold personalities involved, the

corporate- tainted science, the terrifying health costs, the

attempts at cleanup, and how the smog battle helped mold the

modern-day culture of Los Angeles. There are scofflaws aplenty and

dirty deals, plus murders, suicides, spiritual despair, and an

ever-present paranoia about mass disaster.

Brimming with historic photographs, forgotten anecdotes, and new

revelations about our environmentally precarious present, Smogtown

is a journalistic classic for the modern age.

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　　Chip Jacobs has written for the Los Angeles Times, Daily News

of Los Angeles, and L.A. Weekly. He is the author of Wheeling the

Deal: The Outrageous Legend of Gordon Zahler, Hollywood's Flashiest

Quadriplegic.

　　William J. Kelly has written for L.A. Weekly, the Los Angeles

Times, Alternet, and California Journal. He was chief spokesman for

more than thirteen years of the South Coast Air Quality Management

District, the smog control agency for greater Los Angeles. He is

the author of Home Sweet Home, and senior correspondent for

California Energy Circuit. Both live in Los Angeles.

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　　*Starred Review*

　　Remember those great 1950s horror movies, when some

super-powerful creature menaced a city while the citizens panicked,

law enforcement officials bumbled, politicians pontificated, and

plucky scientists worked at a fever pitch to find something,

anything, to kill the monster? That's pretty much the feel of this

remarkably entertaining and informative chronicle of the birth

and--so far--inexorable evolution of smog. On July 8, 1943, smog

attacked Los Angeles without warning (well, not much warning).

People didn't know what to make of this gray mist that blanketed

the city, and when it didn't go away (or went away and then came

back), the citizenry began to react in strange ways: there were

rumors, for example, that this smelly cloud was some sort of

chemical attack by the Japanese--less than a year after Pearl

Harbor, this claim didn't sound so silly. By 1947, when it looked

like smog was here to stay, the governor of California created the

country's first smog agency. The following year, a documentary

about smog was released in theaters, animated by some guy named

Walt Disney, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter was writing

investigative pieces about the stinky mist. Later, smog helped

launch Ralph Nader's crusading career, and today it's a central

theme in the environmentalism movement. This book is just amazing,

a gripping story well told, with the requisite plucky scientists

(including Arie Haagen-Smit, a Dutch biochemist who was the Elvis

of his field), hapless politicians, and a nebulous biochemical

villain who just will not be stopped. -- Booklist (September 1,

2008)

书籍介绍

The smog beast wafted into downtown Los Angeles on July 26, 1943. Nobody knew what it was. Secretaries rubbed their eyes. Traffic cops seemed to disappear in the mysterious haze. Were Japanese saboteurs responsible? A reckless factory? The truth was much worse--it came from within, from Southern California's burgeoning car-addicted, suburban lifestyle.

Smogtown is the story of pollution, progress, and how an optimistic people confronted the epic struggle against airborne poisons barraging their hometowns. With wit, verve, and a fresh look at history, California based journalists Chip Jacobs and William J. Kelly highlight the bold personalities involved, the corporate- tainted science, the terrifying health costs, the attempts at cleanup, and how the smog battle helped mold the modern-day culture of Los Angeles. There are scofflaws aplenty and dirty deals, plus murders, suicides, spiritual despair, and an ever-present paranoia about mass disaster.

Brimming with historic photographs, forgotten anecdotes, and new revelations about our environmentally precarious present, Smogtown is a journalistic classic for the modern age.

• 作者：人在鹭洲 发布时间：2015-05-27 23:27:42

  热点话题，但全书略显冗长，结构松散，章节的安排不尽合理，语言风格也和调查报道这个体裁有些格格不入

• 作者：文孟先生 发布时间：2024-03-04 12:10:54

  经典！

• 作者：榨菜饭团 发布时间：2012-07-05 15:25:15

  贝卡利亚25岁的时候就写成了这部书，皮亚杰22岁就拿到了博士学位，说明读书越多越可能被条条框框束缚住而失去创造力了。黄风在书后对历史背景的介绍和总体评价很有意义。如果每一个中国的立法者，执法者都能读一读这个小册子，他们在审判良心犯和实施酷刑的时候会不会心虚呢？

• 作者：金镝 发布时间：2023-09-21 09:01:16

  通过本书能学到很多关于营销（特别是白酒营销）的知识，但我觉得这些知识对于股票投资没有明显的助益。

• 作者：亦明Reading 发布时间：2022-02-26 01:57:09

  美式鸡汤总让人鸡血满满。

• 作者：aricnice 发布时间：2015-01-01 21:32:39

  洛杉矶 雾霾之城 我操 英文版的 自作孽犯贱看英文折磨自己

• 舍不得离开的城市

  作者：沐晨 发布时间：2015-10-20 22:06:22

• 民众创造一切

  作者：雨伞 发布时间：2016-02-16 12:38:18

         作者对洛城六十多年来对抗烟雾污染的历程作了很详细的描述。民众，商业巨头，政府，科学家，医生，激进主义者。无穷的争论，无尽的撕X大战。各方利益交织，形势复杂多变。尽管努力进行划分，作者的叙述仍然有些凌乱。而不同对美国各种地名人名机构名毫无辨识度的我看得更是眼花缭乱，具体情况实在搞不清楚，只是有个大概的印象（完全是以前书读的少的缘故啊）。

         当然我也不是毫无收获。首先就是对美帝有了一个新的更直观的更全面的认识。以前看的内容都是说美国如何民主自由，教育如何启发学生，诺奖一箩筐，文化大繁荣，简直完美（此处应该金星老师标志性的表情），似乎是实现梦想最佳的地方（还是新闻联播看得少啊）。看了这本美国人自己写的书之后，才发现美国也有这么混乱的一面啊，什么种族歧视，地区不公正对待，各种示威游行，象牙塔被商业裹挟等等等等。心里顿时就平衡多了，没事不要老想着出国，大天朝也不错。

          其次，就是污染问题的根源了。谁是罪魁祸首？谁又能拯救地球？我同意作者的观点，两个问题的答案都是民众。不管是贪婪的汽车制造商和污染企业，还是刚开始无动于衷到后来左右摇摆的政府，他们都是民众的一部分。民众代表什么，代表的是置身其中的每个人。为什么会有那么多的冲突，为的是利益，每个人自己的利益。这是人本性的一部分，难以泯灭。也不应该被泯灭，人是要为自己着想，但有一个关键的问题就是我们的所作所为真的是为我们自己好吗？我们的所作所为会不会给我们带来毁灭呢？污染问题是属于全人类的问题，没有一个人可以置身事外。这件事几乎不涉及道德问题，关键取决于每个人的认识。如果每个人都可以不再死盯着眼下的一点小小的舒适、便捷、利益，想得更长远一些，为自己，为后辈子孙，积极地行动起来（这并不轻松），问题应该就可以解决了。

         马克思和当年明月都说过，人民群众是历史的创造者。未来会怎样，我们拭目以待吧。

         最后吐糟一下书名吧，为了引起读者的阅读兴趣，硬是把洛杉矶烟雾改成雾霾，这样真的好吗？虽然译者一开始就承认并指明了这一点，虽然我的确因为是雾霾而想读这本书，但是。。。都出版快两年了，现在豆瓣上才只有30个人评价过，这个铁一般的事实告诉我们做人要诚实。。。