The authors of Slow Death by Rubber Duck, Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie, are both Canadian environmentalists dedicated to making the world a better place. Smith, born in 1968, is a prominent author and environmentalist known for being the executive director of Broadbent Institute. He graduated from University of Guelph in Canada in 1999 with a Ph.D. in biology. Between 2003 and 2012 he has been a prominent proponent of the “green economy” playing a central role in the creation of the Ontario Greenbelt, and the Ontario Green Energy and Green Economy Act. Through all of his hard work in environmental acts, he also is a husband and father to two young boys.
Lourie is an influential and prominent figure in the environmental sector of Canada. For 20 years he has worked on creating collaborative solutions to challenges facing non-profit, government and the private sector. Lourie has a comprehensive background of toxic substances, green energy, forest conservation, and environmental philanthropy. He founded the Summerhill Group in 1992 and currently holds a position as the president of Ivey Foundation.
These two influential environmentalists collaborated to produce a book like none other. These two authors took on the challenge of pulling the concept of pollution out of the abstract distance and brought it close to home. Pollution is no longer something that just happens in the outside world, but is within our everyday lives in common household products we use every day. Smith and Lourie conducted their own research by ingesting and inhaling common products used in our everyday lives and measuring the chemical pollution in their own systems before and after use. These authors use themselves to demonstrate how personal pollution has become and expose the cooperate giants who allow the polluted products to be sold.
The intended audience for this book is generally adults due to the nature of the information which focuses on changing our personal habits for our familes and the many chemical terms used. The first chapter Each chapter of the book has a similar format where a chemical is introduced and its background and history is discussed. The known environmental problems with each chemical is discussed and the various legal actions taken in changing the status of the current pollution. The chapters move on to disussing the pollution within our own bodies and how that is not only affecting ourselves but affecting families and, in the author’s perspective, his two boys. The authors then move on to discuss how we are putting that pollution into our bodies every day and describe the experiment conducted in which each author attempted to measure his chemical levels in his body before and after exposing himself to the chemical in question. The results of each experiment are presented and discussed to allow the reader to understand what these every day products are really doing to our bodies. The chemicals in each chapter discussed are: phthalates, Teflon, brominated flame retardant, mercury, Trisclosan, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane(DDT), and bisphenol A.
I recommend this book to any environmentalists or chemists. Anyone interested in science and understanding pollution, or getting a better understanding of what is in the things we use in our bodies every day should read this book. This book is highly informative about what is in our everyday products and how that is affecting our bodies so anyone interested in reducing their own physical pollution should read this book.
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ABHISHEK CHANDRA
Daily life hazardous practices is very nicely explained with proper scientific and research data
Reviewed in India on October 29, 2017
