The Monster at Our Door (e-book) (used book) | Mike Davis | bookbook.eu

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The 'Monster at our Door' is a supercontagious virus that is predicted to evolve from the avian flu that currently infects large numbers of poultry in East Asia. Davis predicts that the world is on the verge of a calamity of untold magnitude. Mike Davis reconstructs the scientific and political history of a viral apocalypse in the making, exposing the central roles of agribusiness and the fast-food industries, abetted by corrupt governments, in creating the ecological conditions for the emergence of this new plague. He also details the scandalous failure of the Bush administration, obsessed with hypothetical bio-terrorism, to safeguard Americans from the greatest biological threat since HIV/AIDS. MacArthur fellow Mike Davis is the author of several books, including City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear, Late Victorian Holocausts, Dead Cities.