What’s Gotten into Us? is a deep, awesome, and empowering research into the threats—biological and environmental—that chemical substances now found in our day-by-day lives.
Do you recognize what chemical substances are on your shampoo? How approximately your cosmetics? are you aware what’s within the plastic water bottles you drink from, or the weed killer on your storage, or your children’s pajamas? If you’re like such a lot folks, the answer's most likely no. yet you furthermore may most likely figured that the majority of those items have been secure, and that someone—the brands, the government—was searching for you. the reality may perhaps shock you.
After experiencing a future health scare of his personal, journalist McKay Jenkins got down to realize the reality approximately poisonous chemical substances, our alarming degrees of publicity, and our government’s utter failure to control them successfully. What’s Gotten into Us? reveals how harmful, and the way universal, pollution are within the so much traditional issues, and within the so much commonplace of places:
• Our water: because of suburban sprawl and agricultural runoff, ninety seven percentage of our nation’s rivers and streams are actually infected with every thing from herbicides to pharmaceutical medicinal drugs.
• Our bodies: excessive degrees of hormone-disrupting chemical substances from cosmetics, flame-retardants from garments and furnishings, even long-banned components like DDT and lead, are continually exhibiting up in human blood samples.
• Our homes: Many pollution lurk underneath our sinks and in our basements, in fact, yet do you know that they’re additionally present in wall-to-wall carpeting, plywood, and upholstery softeners?
• Our yards: insecticides, fungicides, even universal fertilizers—there are huge, immense, unseen charges to our nationwide obsession with eco-friendly, weed-free lawns.
What’s Gotten Into Us? is even more than a take-heed call. It deals a variety of functional methods for us to regain a few keep an eye on over our lives, to make our personal own worlds rather less poisonous. inside of, you’ll locate rules that will help you make expert judgements concerning the items you purchase, and to disentangle your self from bad items you don’t need—so that you just and your loved ones can begin residing more fit lives now, and within the years yet to come. simply because, as this e-book exhibits, what you don’t be aware of can harm you.
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