Slow Death By Rubber Duck Review

The secret danger of everyday things wild and crazy canadian science policy geeks smith and lourie write about the slightly horrific and sometimes hilarious experiment they conducted on themselves for one week they hung out in a rented apartment inhaling and ingesting a variety of toxic chemicals that are in everyday household products.

Slow death by rubber duck review.

In slow death by rubber duck. The updated edition of slow death by rubber duck also includes experiments from smith and lourie s 2013 book toxin toxout and chronicles conversations with activists government officials and experts as well as people who have experienced health impacts to paint a picture of the average consumer s everyday exposure to chemicals. 151 carl pope executive director sierra club br. Slow death by rubber duck goes beyond scare tactics to solutions that we can all apply to our daily lives green living a fascinating and frightening read leavened by frequent references to pop culture everything from saturday night live episodes to quotes from miss marple as well as the authors brio in using their own bodies.

For example in a rant about why triclosan was used in a garden hose one author quotes. At this moment in history the image conjured up by the word pollution is just as properly an innocent rubber duck as it is a giant smoke stack from the book slow death by rubber duck. Slow death by rubber duck tells the other end of this story 151 how ordinary household products we consume here in the u s. Publishers weekly starred review slow death by rubber duck s real achievement is in documenting how chemical giants stay a step ahead of regulators and those revelations make the book a fascinating and frightening read the week slow death by rubber duck.

Pollution then and now two. Each chapter offers the history impact effects and possible future of an assortment of ubiquitous chemicals that have been introduced to an unwitting public not only in the u s canada but throughout the world. The secret danger of everyday things. Download it once and read it on your kindle device pc phones or tablets.

A shipping container filled with rubber duckies was lost at sea in 1992 and the bath toys are still washing ashore today. Isn t just alarmist environmental shock and awe. Follow the rubber duck to see how plastic travels the sea. Use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading slow death by rubber duck.

Are the font of this toxic rain that falls on the arctic 151 but that while the arctic is the most distant victim of these poisons we ourselves are the first 8221. The secret danger of everyday things kindle edition by smith rick lourie bruce. Slow death by rubber duck. Rick smith s slow death by rubber duck is a very compelling read.