Slow Death by Rubber Duck Fully Expanded and Updated

Smith, Rick; Lourie, Bruce

ISBN 10: 073527570X / ISBN 13: 9780735275706

Published by Knopf Canada, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Slow Death by Rubber Duck Fully Expanded and Updated
• Publisher: Knopf Canada
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 073527570X
• ISBN 13: 9780735275706
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 18 ounces

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Synopsis

The landmark book about the toxicity of everyday life, updated, revised and re-issued for its 10th anniversary, along with the experiments from Smith and Lourie's second book, Toxin Toxout.

It's amazing how little can change in a decade. In 2009, a book transformed the way we see our frying pans, thermometers and tuna sandwiches. Daily life was bathing us in countless toxins that accumulated in our tissues, were passed on to our children and damaged our health. To expose the extent of this toxification, environmentalists Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie offered themselves to science and undertook a series of over a dozen experiments to briefly raise their personal levels of mercury, BPA, Teflon and other pollutants. The ease with which ordinary activities caused dangerous levels to build in their bodies was a wake-up call, and readers all over the world responded. But did government regulators and corporations? Ten years later, there is good news. But not much. Concise, shocking, practical and hopeful, this new combined edition of one of the most important books ever published about green living will put the nasty stuff back where it belongs: on the national agenda and out of our bodies.

About the Author

RICK SMITH is a Canadian author, environmentalist and non-profit leader and the Executive Director of the Broadbent Institute. From 2003 to 2012, he served as Executive Director of Environmental Defence where he was the driving force to make Canada the first country in the world to ban BPA in baby bottles. He is the co-author of two bestselling books on the health effects of pollution: Slow Death by Rubber Duck (2009) and Toxin Toxout (2013).

BRUCE LOURIE is an environmental thought leader in Canada and an acknowledged global expert on pollution and sustainable energy. He has founded many important environmental organizations such as the Clean Economy Fund, Canadian Environmental Grantmakers Network, the Sustainability Network and the Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance. Bruce is President of the Ivey Foundation, one of the largest private foundations supporting sustainability in the country, and is an advisor to Canada's Ecofiscal Commission.