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Summary: A life-changing book
Review: This book literally changed my life. It opened my eyes to the most stunning environmental crisis we have ever faced: we're not just talking about losing some forests and some salmon, we're talking about forever damaging the biochemical conditions for life on Earth.
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Summary: the usual environmental bromides
Review: This book perfectly exemplifies mainstream environmentalism. On the one hand, the book's tone is alarmist. Yet on the other hand, discusssion of (and mere mention of) perfluoryl octanyl sulfonates, and fluorocarbons is conspicuously absent. The chemical villians fingered in this book are not the ones that are the most persistant. I came away with the feeling that this book was intended as disinformation as much as information. Anyway, the fact that the preface was written by Algore should tip off intelegent and informed readers.
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Summary: What legacy are we leaving our children?
Review: This is an excellent work on the insidious effects of environmental toxins and contaminates on the human system, as well as the devastation to wildlife. Highly recommended reading!
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Summary: Please stop the world now, I¿d like to get off¿.
Review: Without doubt, this is the most terrifying book I've ever read. Stephen King, move over, reality bites.....Nope, this is not fiction, this is the air we breathe, the food we eat - even the very containers we eat from. No place on the planet is safe anymore, so would someone please stop it and let me off now?For me, the most terrifying aspect was the dawning realization that I had read many of the research papers cited within, but had not drawn the elements together. As the pieces fell into place, my eyes opened in horror at the implications....and I looked down at my infant son, who I was breastfeeding, appalled at the choices now confronting me. But make no mistake, this is no tabloid horror, nor a new age book on the environment. This is a well-researched work, with an opening prelude by Vice President Al Gore. The facts are presented in a clear, concise manner that does not require a college degree to understand, but nor will it bore academics. Told with the same mounting tension as Richard Preston's The Hot Zone, the real terror comes when the reader realizes that unlike Ebola, there is no possible escape. This is not some emerging virus in a distant country, this is here...now, already in us.... Current human population growth masterfully disguises an insidious biological time bomb already exploding within us all. In our desire to create new and better chemical nightmares manufactured under the guise of modern living conveniences, we may be headed to extinction as fast and sure as any currently endangered species. ...And it's hitting is right where it hurts most, the physical and psychological abilities we need to reproduce. But like a well presented piece of research, with the null hypothesis clearly in mind, this book does not draw unfounded conclusions. It allows you, the reader, to draw your own. And when you do, you may never sleep well again. Buy this book. Read it, lend a copy to a friend and encourage them to buy it. It may be the single most important book you ever read.
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