Just finished the book Murderlands after hearing an interview with the author on 99% Invisible. It's a memoir that overlays a period of horrible environmental destruction and devastation with the serial killer epidemic from the 1960s through the 1980s.

The amount of toxic waste that was pumped into the air (lead, arsenic, etc etc) around these smelter compounds is mind blowing. Measured in tons per day. A lot of the North American smelters have been shut down. Where have we moved these negative externalities?

P.S. I'd skip the book because the author chose to spend a good deal of time graphically describing the crimes of Bundy, Rader, Ridgeway, Ramirez, et al and I really didn't need that in my brain.