Pandora's Poison
Subtitle: Chlorine, Health, and a New Environmental Strategy
Publisher: The MIT Press; MIT Press
Published: March 17, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 611
ISBN-13: 9780262201247
Subjects: Chemical pollution; Pollution control; Public health & preventive medicine; Environmental Health; Health & Fitness; Environmental Studies; Science/Mathematics; Environmental Science; Industrial Health & Safety; Toxicology; Science / Environmental Science; Health Care Issues; Public Policy - General; Environmental Policy; Environmental aspects; Organochlorine compounds
First sentence: In the next month, my wife, Margie, and I will have our first child.
Description: "Pandora's Poison presents a solution to one of the most insidious environmental problems of our time: the global build up to toxic chemicals. In a through and accessible analysis, biologist Joe Thornton shows how global organochlorine pollution is already contributing to infertility, immune suppression, cancer, and developmental disorders in humans and wildlife.".

"Articulating principles for a new environmental strategy, Thornton shows that the only practical solution is to take global action on broad classes of hazardous chemicals and the processes that produce them, starting with organochlorines. He lays out a democratically controlled program to replace the production and use of chlorine gas and its derivatives with safer, effective, and economically feasible alternatives, which are already available for the majority of chlorine uses.

Pandora's Poison promises to revolutionize the debate over pollution, health, and the role of science in public policy."--BOOK JACKET.