This is an excerpt from the book FATAL DECEPTION For your information, the author of this book is: Michael Bowker. And the book is about "The terrifying true story of how asbestos is killing America." Not only is this book very interesting in of itself, it also includes much useful information on the topic of Asbestos Removal. Here is a little bit from the beginning of the book:
The challenge of any story is the telling. That was especially true in the creation of this book the story of asbestos is as braided and complex as the fiber itself. There are major financial, medical, political, legal, and, most of all, personal story lines, and each plays a major role. Structuring the book was a daunting task because detailing each of these elements could easily fill volumes. Moreover, during the research, unexpected and important tributaries appeared at every turn, complicating and enriching the story.
One of these is the mystifying scandal involving the EPA that may have caused many of the thirty thousand people in lower Manhattan to be exposed to high levels of deadly asbestos fibers from the World Trade Center collapse. Another is the fact that asbestos remains at the heart of a multi billion-dollar legal war that has dozens of major American companies on the brink of financial disaster.
The biggest challenge was how to fit all of these into one book Certainly, the national and international scope of the problem breaking personal stories of the people in the libby, Montana the site of the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history. Libby was polluted with deadly asbestos fibers for more than sixty years, until recently, when a handful of courageous residents stood up and fought for their town and families. One of these heros was Robert Wilkins, who died of asbestos-related causes on November 10,2002, and in whose memory this book is written.
The events in Libby are crucial to the story because they explode several myths about asbestos, including the misconception that asbestos poisoning is strictly occupational in nature. More than fourteen hundred people in Libby have been stricken, and only a few were miners.The medical studies in Libby are greatly expanding our understanding of asbestos-related diseases, and the EPA has also discovered new ways in which asbestos fibers can invade and hide in our homes.
To understand the full threat of asbestos, I felt it was important to plait both of these stories into one. In large part, the national story runs on a parallel course to Libby’s, but there are a few major intersections ----particularly the World Trade Center, which included tons of deadly asbestos from the Libby mine. The two stories are told in alternating chapters in chronological form, more or less.
Of the more than one hundred interviews that took place during the research for this book, none were more inspiring or more difficult than the ones I did with asbestos victims in Libby and elsewhere around the country. I found that their personal courage mirrored that which we all saw displayed by the victims of the 9/11 tragedy. The difference is that the hundreds of thousands of asbestos victims remain this nations darkest secret. This book is dedicated to them May it shed a light.
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The challenge of any story is the telling. That was especially true in the creation of this book the story of asbestos is as braided and complex as the fiber itself. There are major financial, medical, political, legal, and, most of all, personal story lines, and each plays a major role. Structuring the book was a daunting task because detailing each of these elements could easily fill volumes. Moreover, during the research, unexpected and important tributaries appeared at every turn, complicating and enriching the story.
One of these is the mystifying scandal involving the EPA that may have caused many of the thirty thousand people in lower Manhattan to be exposed to high levels of deadly asbestos fibers from the World Trade Center collapse. Another is the fact that asbestos remains at the heart of a multi billion-dollar legal war that has dozens of major American companies on the brink of financial disaster.
The biggest challenge was how to fit all of these into one book Certainly, the national and international scope of the problem breaking personal stories of the people in the libby, Montana the site of the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history. Libby was polluted with deadly asbestos fibers for more than sixty years, until recently, when a handful of courageous residents stood up and fought for their town and families. One of these heros was Robert Wilkins, who died of asbestos-related causes on November 10,2002, and in whose memory this book is written.
The events in Libby are crucial to the story because they explode several myths about asbestos, including the misconception that asbestos poisoning is strictly occupational in nature. More than fourteen hundred people in Libby have been stricken, and only a few were miners.The medical studies in Libby are greatly expanding our understanding of asbestos-related diseases, and the EPA has also discovered new ways in which asbestos fibers can invade and hide in our homes.
To understand the full threat of asbestos, I felt it was important to plait both of these stories into one. In large part, the national story runs on a parallel course to Libby’s, but there are a few major intersections ----particularly the World Trade Center, which included tons of deadly asbestos from the Libby mine. The two stories are told in alternating chapters in chronological form, more or less.
Of the more than one hundred interviews that took place during the research for this book, none were more inspiring or more difficult than the ones I did with asbestos victims in Libby and elsewhere around the country. I found that their personal courage mirrored that which we all saw displayed by the victims of the 9/11 tragedy. The difference is that the hundreds of thousands of asbestos victims remain this nations darkest secret. This book is dedicated to them May it shed a light.
adxasbestos removal.com 125 S Clark St Chicago, IL
