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> #ToxicArchipelago.. how toxic pollution works.. into.. human bodies and brings unimaginable pain.. #BrettWalker examines.. case studies of #industrial #toxins that know no boundaries: deaths from #insecticide.. #poisonings from copper, zinc, and lead mining; congenital deformities from #MethylMercury,, and lung diseases
.. the #Japanese archipelago has become #industrialized over the last two hundred years -- and how people and the environment have suffered..
https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295991382/toxic-archipelago/
#Japan
Toxic Archipelago

Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these re...

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> Every person.. is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Our lives depend on these relationships -- and are imperiled by them.. [especially] on the #Japanese archipelago.
.. #Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis.. transformed by an engineered, #industrialized, and poisonous environment. #Toxins moved.. from mines, factory sites, and rice paddies into human bodies.
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/4077/
#BrettWalker #ToxicArchipelago
Project MUSE - Toxic Archipelago

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