Our Toxic Environment
Monday, October 29, 2007 10-11AM ET
On Point
Host Tom Ashbrook
It's a chemical world. In our water bottles, our furniture, our cosmetics and lawns and food, we are surrounded by synthetic chemicals. Since World War II, some 80,000 have been introduced. Forty-two billion pounds worth are produced or imported in the U.S. every year.
At the same time, Americans face a phalanx of disease and health challenges -- from cancer to asthma to disrupted hormones -- that have everyone wondering every day what's safe to breathe, to touch, to eat. Europe is stricter. The U.S. -- wide open.
This hour, On Point: chemical threats, and the call for a new "green chemistry."
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Host Tom Ashbrook
It's a chemical world. In our water bottles, our furniture, our cosmetics and lawns and food, we are surrounded by synthetic chemicals. Since World War II, some 80,000 have been introduced. Forty-two billion pounds worth are produced or imported in the U.S. every year.
At the same time, Americans face a phalanx of disease and health challenges -- from cancer to asthma to disrupted hormones -- that have everyone wondering every day what's safe to breathe, to touch, to eat. Europe is stricter. The U.S. -- wide open.
This hour, On Point: chemical threats, and the call for a new "green chemistry."
| John Warner, president and chief technology officer, Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry | |
| John Peterson Myers, founder, CEO and chief scientist of Environmental Health Sciences and co-author of "Our Stole Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival?" |
Added on October 29, 2007 by RachelCarson100
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