Acid Rain

This is a filleted – though not entirely boneless – version of an earlier text by Petheram published four years ago when acid rain was much higher in the charts than now. It presents a routine look at the nature, causes, effects and future of acid rain, with the visual succession of bites of broadly accurate text breaking up a collection of broadly relevant agency-derived photographs. The order of (spread-by-spread, naturally) introduction of subjects seems illogical, though; to leave the causes of acid rain till page 10 of 32 seems to me to be to leave it too long. And to cite, unequivocally, the USA as an exemplar of acid gas reduction is getting close to the wind, while to say that when acid rain falls on limestone, the acid becomes less harmful is to neglect the harm done to the stone listed at the start of the book as part of the acid rain problem. There’s a place called Podington in Northamptonshire, which is given over to that potent rain acidulator – drag racing. Nothing so exciting in this run-of-the-mill production model.