Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution

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Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution

Author: Marilynne Robinson

Category: Fiction

Published: 1989

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At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's cottage in the Lakes District; one child in sixty was dying from leukemia in the village closest to the plant. The central question of this eloquently impassioned book is: How can a country that we persist in calling a welfare state consciously risk the lives of its people for profit.