Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment
Sandra Steingraber
Language: English
Pages: 440
ISBN: 0306818698
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The updated science in this exciting new edition strengthens the case for banning poisons now pervasive in our air, our food, and our bodies. Because synthetic chemicals linked to cancer come mostly from petroleum and coal, Steingraber shows that investing in green energy also helps prevent cancer. Saving the planet becomes a matter of saving ourselves and an issue of human rights. A documentary film based on the book will coincide with publication.
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Hume Hall, “Too often cancer research has focused on finding the last straw. It’s time we looked at all the straws.” Recently capturing the attention of cancer biologists are two other possible pathways to cancer: chronic inflammation and abnormal epigenetic regulation. The first affects the ecology of all the tissues surrounding the cell. The second affects the flickering patterns of genetic signaling within the cell. The growing awareness that both processes could be playing critical roles.
She holds herself in the ginger, upright manner of one who has undergone surgery. The alteration in her appearance that followed her cancer diagnosis is dramatic. The newspaper clippings in the Beinecke Library that trace her various public appearances in the waning days of her life are full of elaborate descriptions of what type of elegant suit Miss Carson chose to wear and how delightfully she comported herself. The accompanying pictures tell a different story. But it is a story read in.
Conspired to contribute to the demise of the pines, how exactly did they do so? Once I had established the pattern, I needed to design experiments that would uncover causal mechanisms. I found this work very exciting. But as a woman with cancer who grew up in a county with numerous hazardous waste sites, several carcinogen-emitting industries, and public water wells that, from time to time, show detectable levels of toxic chemicals, I am less concerned about whether the cancer in my community is.
Corn and bean fields—a mirror image of the east bluff. Not so, claim my two companions, who believe the west bluff is hillier and therefore more fun to drive on. I’m not persuaded, but it’s a good argument. Many toxic chemicals are not routinely monitored in ambient air in Illinois, and little is known about ambient concentrations or the relative importance of various sources of these chemicals. In the nineteenth century, many good people—medical doctors and officers of the government among.
Carbon-based chemicals that are released into water directly, fall off barges in transit, waft into the air only to rain down elsewhere, or eventually worm their way into water via landfills and dump sites. Finally, in all regions, protection of water supplies will require new thinking on the part of individual citizens, who are asked to assume the frightening cancer risks that others have decided, on their behalf, are acceptable. Back at the waterworks, additional improvements are possible. For.