Earth Detox
How and Why we Must Clean Up Our Planet
How and Why We Must EARTH Clean Up Our Planet
DETOX
JULIAN CRIBB 9781108931083
How and Why We Must Clean Up Our Planet
JULIAN
AUD $19.95 / NZD $21.95
‘Starkly engaging, beautifully written, and Available July 2021 CRIBB deeply unnerving’ - Geoffrey Holland
‘Starkly engaging, beautifully written, and deeply unnerving’ - Geoffrey Holland
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Julian Cribb, Julian Cribb & Associates Julian Cribb is an author and science communicator. His career includes appointments as scientific editor for The Australian, director of national awareness for CSIRO, member of numerous scientific boards and advisory panels, and president of national professional bodies for agricultural journalism and science communication. He is the author of the best-seller Food or War, published by CUP in 2019.
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.
Key Features • A terrifying yet hopeful account of the effects of man-made chemicals on us all • Quantifies the total global chemical impact on the planet and humanity, and shows what a major catastrophic risk this poses for the health and safety of individuals and society • Describes the Anthropogenic Chemical Circulation, a deadly phenomenon six times larger than our total greenhouse gas emissions • Links chemical emissions to the daily lived experience of the reader • Presents the arguments for combined global action • Maps a clear path forward to reduce the man-made toxic burden on the individual, society and the Earth, identifying opportunities, methods and strategies to detox the Earth
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