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Elizabeth Grossman, an acclaimed journalist who brought national attention to the contaminants hidden in computers and other high tech electronics, now tackles the hazards of ordinary consumer products. She shows that for the sake of convenience, efficiency, and short-term safety, we have created synthetic chemicals that fundamentally change, at a molecular level, the way our bodies work. The consequences range from diabetes to cancer, reproductive and neurological disorders.
Yet it’s hard to imagine life without the creature comforts current materials provide—and Grossman argues we do not have to. A scientific revolution is introducing products that are “benign by design,” developing manufacturing processes that consider health impacts at every stage, and is creating new compounds that mimic rather than disrupt natural systems. Through interviews with leading researchers, Grossman gives us a first look at this radical transformation.
"Grossman profiles the worst offenders, including bisphenol A (BPA) and phthalates, but she also portrays the good guys who are coming to the rescue, John Warner and Paul Anastas, founders of the burgeoning green chemistry movement. Green chemistry aims to replace hazardous synthetic chemicals with chemicals that are "benign by design." Grossman's clarion expose should give this lifesaving initiative a big boost.”
— Donna Seaman
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London Chapman
reviewed Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry on March 01, 2021
Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry
I am going to start by explaining my rating. The content and the message of this book is really really deserving 6 stars if it were possible. The problem I had with this book, as other reviewers have written, is that there is a noticeable lack of editing: it is very often quite repetitive and there are a handful of mistakes here and there, so that lowered my grade for the book.
So, about the content, I think this book is a truly eye-opener to what the world really is right now (or 12 years ago), chemically, industrially and environmentally speaking. It does go into very technical details now and then, so it may be difficult to follow for someone who doesn't study or work in something related to chemistry. The anecdotes accompany the more scientific aspects quite well.
As I read on and on, I couldn't help but look all around me and imagine how many and how much of the molecules listed in the book are already in my body and surrounding me and my family. I felt a knot in my throat tightening with each new chapter and, although it is uncomfortable to read such things, it is extremely necessary for we are on the brink of an ecological and human health catastrophe, because both go hand in hand.
We often hear about contamination and pollution as a visible thing, in the macro-scale, but, as Elizabeth Grossman narrates in this book, the problem is actually quite worse: not only do we have the large scale contamination, but we also have molecular contamination that has gotten into every single corner of the Earth and into every single living being on the planet, even those who have not been born yet.
I consider the topic of this book one of the most important topics to write about and read about in this day and age. I would truly like if the author did a part two, 12 years later, and analyzed how well and how bad we have done since this book. How much has the future of our planet and of future generations changed as to that of 2009?
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