Earth Detox - How and Why we Must Clean Up Our Planet
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| Verlag | Cambridge University Press |
| Auflage | 2021 |
| Seiten | 300 |
| Format | 13,7 x 2,0 x 21,5 cm |
| Gewicht | 430 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781108931083 |
| Bestell-Nr | 10893108UA |
Man-made toxins affect our health, safety, and lives: this book plots an empowering, hopeful path to a safer, cleaner world.
Klappentext:
Every person on our home planet is affected by a worldwide deluge of man-made chemicals and pollutants - most of which have never been tested for safety. Our chemical emissions are six times larger than our total greenhouse gas emissions. They are in our food, our water, the air we breathe, our homes and workplaces, the things we use each day. This universal poisoning affects our minds, our bodies, our genes, our grandkids, and all life on Earth. Julian Cribb describes the full scale of the chemical catastrophe we have unleashed. He proposes a new Human Right - not to be poisoned. He maps an empowering and hopeful way forward: to rid our planet of these toxins and return Earth to the clean, healthy condition which our forebears enjoyed, and our grandchildren should too.
Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Preface; 1. Chemical avalanche; 2. Poisoning a Planet; 3. Are you a contaminated site?; 4. Diabolic cocktail; 5. Unseen risks; 6. Sick society; 7. Getting away with murder; 8. Clean up Society; 9. Clean up the Earth; 10. Averting disaster; Postscript. A warning from deep time; Index.
Rezension:
'In Earth Detox, Cribb shows that humanity's chemical emissions are a threat to civilization on the scale of climate disruption - slaying more people every year now than any war in human history. On a bedrock of hard scientific evidence, he shows the way for urgent universal action to stem this colossal menace to our future. Another must-read by an outstanding science communicator.' Paul R. Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb and Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic