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Cargando... Shopping Our Way to Safety: How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselvespor Andrew Szasz
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Throws a whole new light onto the subject of natural products. The main thesis is that the availability of alternative, natural products robs society of any drive for real change; we become less active in pursuing real change when we think we can 'shop ourselves to safety' - I'm fine, why should I bother getting politically active? The author makes a compelling argument. But what to do with the ideas in this book? It poses questions that have no simple answer and I wonder if the book might be too dense and scholarly to be much use. Nevertheless this is a start. The main thing I take away from it is the conviction that the option to avoid nasty chemical products shouldn't be limited to only those who can afford it. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"Not long ago, people did not worry about the food they ate. They did not worry about the water they drank or the air they breathed. It never occurred to them that eating, drinking water, satisfying basic, mundane bodily needs might be a dangerous thing to do. Parents thought it was good for their kids to go outside, get some sun. "That's all changed now." -from the Introduction Many Americans today rightly fear that they are constantly exposed to dangerous toxins in their immediate environment: tap water is contaminated with chemicals; foods contain p No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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