Introduction;
Health and Chemistry;
Food and Chemistry;
Water and Chemistry;
Transport, Biofuels and Chemistry;
Plastics and Chemistry;
Cities and Chemistry;
Sport and Chemistry;
Glossary;
Something to think about;
Sources and further reading;
Index
John Emsley is a popular science writer whose first book, The Consumer's Good Chemical Guide, won the 1995 Science Book Prize and has been translated into 12 other languages. Then came Molecules at an Exhibition, Vanity, Vitality & Virility, and Better Looking, Better Living, Better Loving, A Healthy, Wealthy, Sustainable World all devoted to the benefits of chemistry. A Healthy, Wealthy, Sustainable World will deal with the things we regard as essential to a developed lifestyle and which depend on chemistry, namely food, water, fuel, healing drugs and plastics, as well as other areas where its role is less obvious, such as city living and sport.
Chemistry As The Good Guy A Healthy, Wealthy, Sustainable World
John Emsley
RSC Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2010, 170 pp (HB) ISBN
978-1-84755-862-6" ""Reviewed by Keith Taber"
This book reflects two major premises. One is that we face a major
crisis because of the way humans have been using the world's
resources in a way that is totally unsustainable. The second is
that although this is a major problem, there is hope, and much of
that hope centres on chemistry. This is an important message. Of
course chemistry is neutral, and sometimes its applications have
caused damage to people and places. Yet its successes often go
unnoticed, and the prospects for future prosperity are dismal
without it.Emsley's book is divided into chapters according to
major areas of application of chemical sciences: food, water,
health, fuels, plastics, cities and sport. Within each of these
contexts, a case is made for how chemistry can make a continuing
major contribution to maintaining a
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