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
4 - Diabolic Cocktail
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
How modern chemistry misleads consumers. Mounting scientific and medical concerns over the effects of chemical mixtures arising from substances released, deliberately and unintentionally, into the biosphere by human activity, breakdown processes etc. Emerging patterns of disease and medical concerns associated with human exposure to complex chemical mixtures.
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- Earth DetoxHow and Why we Must Clean Up Our Planet, pp. 90 - 107Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021