In the United States alone, industrial and agricultural toxins
account for about 60,000 avoidable cancer deaths annually.
Pollution-related health costs to Americans are similarly
staggering: $13 billion a year from asthma, $351 billion from
cardiovascular disease, and $240 billion from occupational disease
and injury. Most troubling, children, the poor, and minorities bear
the brunt of these health tragedies.
Why, asks Kristin Shrader-Frechette, has the government failed to
protect us, and what can we do about it? In this book, at once
brilliant and accessible, Shrader-Frechette reveals how
politicians, campaign contributors, and lobbyists--and their power
over media, advertising, and public relations--have conspired to
cover up environmental disease and death. She also shows how
science and regulators themselves are frequently "captured" by
well-funded polluters and special interests. But most important,
the author puts both the blame--and the solution--on the shoulders
of ordinary citizens. She argues that everyone, especially in a
democracy, has a duty to help prevent avoidable environmental
deaths, to remain informed about, and involved in, public-health
and environmental decision-making. Toward this end, she outlines
specific, concrete ways in which people can contribute to
life-saving reforms, many of them building on recommendations of
the American Public Health Association.
As disturbing as it is, Shrader-Frechette's message is ultimately
hopeful. Calling for a new "democratic revolution," she reminds us
that while only a fraction of the early colonists supported the
American Revolution, that tiny group managed to change the world.
Her book embodies the conviction that we can do the same for
environmental health, particularly if citizens become the change
they seek.
"Influential and impressive. " - Nicholas A. Ashford, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
"Important and compelling, clearly written, accessible. I
enthusiastically recommend this book." - James F. Childress,
University of Virginia
"This book shakes the reader." - Avner de-Shalit, Hebrew University
of Jerusalem
"Powerful, perspicuous, convincing. Essential reading for today." -
Inmaculada de Melo-Martin
"A must-read - a book you won't want to put down." - Kevin Elliott,
University of South Carolina
"An eloquent and persuasive plea to scientists and citizens." -
George W. Fisher, Johns Hopkins University
"Engaging, compelling - deserves to be read by nearly everyone." -
William R. Freudenberg, University of California, Santa
Barbara
"By one of America's foremost philosophers and public
intellectuals; immensely readable, courageous, often startling,
insightful." - Richard Hiskes, University of Connecticut
"Timely, accessible, and written with enviable clarity and passion.
A distinguished philosopher sounds an ethical call to arms to
prevent illness and death from pollution." - Sheila Jasanoff,
Harvard University
"A blistering account of how advocacy must be brought to bear on
issues of justice and public health." - Jeffrey Kahn, University of
Minnesota
"Breaks new ground in linking environmental protection with social
justice. A brilliant inquiry." - Sheldon Krimsky, Tufts
University
"Powerful, lucid, disturbing, poignantly hopeful, lively; deserves
to be widely read." - Hugh Lacey, Swarthmore College
"A powerful call to action that needs to be heard by consumers and
policymakers alike." - Anna C. Mastroianni, University of
Washington
"No other author can so forcefully bring together ethical analysis,
government policy, and environmental science. Outstanding." -
Colleen Moore, University of Wisconsin
"Accessible, thoughtful, exceptional. It made me want to go out and
slay a few dragons of my own " - Felicity Sackville Northcott,
Johns Hopkins University
"Convincing, with an impressive command of scientific knowledge. No
book more clearly demonstrates the need for citizen action." - Mark
Sagoff, University of Maryland
"Like Rachel Carson's Silent Spring - brilliant, brave." - Sylvia
Hood Washington, University of Illinois, Chicago
"This book is inspirational as much as it is scientific....Highly
recommended." -- CHOICE
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