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The updated edition of slow death by rubber duck also includes experiments from smith and lourie s 2013 book toxin toxout and chronicles conversations with activists government officials and experts as well as people who have experienced health impacts to paint a picture of the average consumer s everyday exposure to chemicals.
Slow death by rubber duck goes beyond scare tactics to solutions that we can all apply to our daily lives green living a fascinating and frightening read leavened by frequent references to pop culture everything from saturday night live episodes to quotes from miss marple as well as the authors brio in using their own bodies.
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Slow death by rubber duck s real achievement is in documenting how chemical giants stay a step ahead of regulators and those revelations make the book a fascinating and frightening read the week slow death by rubber duck.
It s a thoughtful look at how pollution has shifted.
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Table of contents foreword by theo colborn co author of our stolen future acknowledgments introduction one.
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A shipping container filled with rubber duckies was lost at sea in 1992 and the bath toys are still washing ashore today.
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Slow death by rubber duck is an important book and definitely goes on my list of the top ten books any health conscious individual should read.
At this moment in history the image conjured up by the word pollution is just as properly an innocent rubber duck as it is a giant smoke stack from the book slow death by rubber duck.
While researching their new book slow death by rubber duck they consciously exposed themselves to everyday products food cleaners soap and shampoos and measured the levels of chemicals that.
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