Living downstream : an ecologist looks at cancer and the environment

摘要: Thirty-five years after Rachel Carson's Silent Spring warned of the impact chemicals on environment, Steingraber offers us an urgent critique current thinking cancer and its causes, bringing alarming message that we have wilfully ignored evidence are still poisoning our environment. Throughout her study truly shocking scientific research she weaves two stories - Carson battle to be heard own moving story bladder, which traces back agricultural industrial contamination. The connection between bodies ecological world in eat, drink, breathe work rarely been so eloquently passionately recorded. 'A very accessible book both for uninitiated, sceptic converted _ thoroughly inspiring provoking' Helen Lynn, WEN