Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and
What’s at Stake for American Power,
by Mark Schapiro, 2007, 216 pages
Mark Schapiro’s book, Exposed, offers a new take on the tale
of toxics in our daily lives.
Sure, reading this book will help you better understand the ways that common everyday materials and products are harming the health of ourselves, our families, and our ecosystems.
But Schapiro also lets us know that Europe is taking a whole new level of action to prevent that harm — and is demonstrating that this is good for business and economic growth as well.
Schapiro makes this information engaging by telling the stories of the key players in this drama — those whose health is being harmed, whose businesses are at stake, and whose better ideas are being implemented.
His most intriguing argument is that the U.S. chemical industry’s resistance to healthier products is rapidly putting them at a competitive disadvantage in the global marketplace, making our products increasingly unwelcome, and threatening our claims of economic supremacy.
Worldwide, governments and industry are increasingly looking to Europe, not the U.S., to see how products of the twenty-first century should be invented, designed, produced, and marketed. The longer our companies delay embracing this path, he says, the farther they will fall behind and into disfavor with consumers.
While making a strong economic argument for changing “business as usual,” the book also shows consumers that we don’t have to wait for government and industry to protect us. Armed with information about Europe’s inspiring example, we can also insist that our representatives and businesses serve the true well-being of us all.
You can see the publisher's link to the book at http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/exposed
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