Book contents
- Earth Detox
- Reviews
- Earth Detox
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- 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 Preventing Catastrophe
- Postscript: A Cautionary Tale from Deep Time
- Notes
- Index
6 - Sick Society
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 July 2021
- Earth Detox
- Reviews
- Earth Detox
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- 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 Preventing Catastrophe
- Postscript: A Cautionary Tale from Deep Time
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Describes growing human health issues linked to exposure to a multiplicity of chemicals and mixtures. Impacts on the human brain, intelligence and mental disorders, autism, ADHD, depression, child and adult cancers, developmental diseases of children, sexual, gender and reproductive disorders, obesity and diabetes, ‘mystery’ disorders, re-emergence of ‘old’ conditions. The epigenetic curse. The case for precaution.
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- Earth DetoxHow and Why we Must Clean Up Our Planet, pp. 131 - 175Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021