Earth Detox
How and Why we Must Clean Up Our Planet

Man-made toxins affect our health, safety, and lives: this book plots an empowering, hopeful path to a safer, cleaner world.

Julian Cribb (Author)

9781108931083, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 July 2021

300 pages
21.5 x 13.7 x 2 cm, 0.43 kg

'A readable, urgent argument for ceasing our profligacy and cleaning our nests.' Kirkus Reviews

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Pollution control [TQK], Social impact of environmental issues [RNT], Climate change [RNPG], Popular science [PDZ], Environmental medicine [MMR], Environmental factors [MBNH2], Environment law [LNKJ]