Earth detox : how and why we must clean up our planet / Julian Cribb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cribb, Julian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pollution.

Nature--Effect of human beings on.

Nature.

Environmental protection.

Greenhouse gas mitigation.

Pollution prevention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 317 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Chemical avalanche

Poisoning a planet

Are you a contaminated site?

Diabolic cocktail

Unseen risks

Sick society

Getting away with murder

Clean up society

Clean up the earth

Averting disaster

Postscript. A warning from deep time.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Jul 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-94427-2

1-108-95050-7

1-108-94641-0

OCLC:

1228913052