Raising Elijah by Sandra Steingraber

Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis (A Merloyd Lawrence Book) by Sandra Steingraber (Author). Nothing may very well be more vital than the health of our youngsters, and nobody is healthier suited to look at the threats towards it than Sandra Steingraber. Once called “a poet with a knife,” she blends exact science with lyrical memoir. In Dwelling Downstream she spoke as a biologist and cancer survivor; in Having Religion she spoke as an ecologist and expectant mom, viewing her personal body as a habitat. Now she speaks as the scientist mother of two young kids, enjoying and celebrating their lives while looking for methods to protect them–and all youngsters–from the poisonous, climate-threatened world they inhabit

Every chapter of this engaging and unique book focuses on one inevitable ingredient of childhood–all the things from pizza to laundry to homework to the “Massive Speak”–and explores the underlying social, political, and ecological forces behind it. By way of these on a regular basis moments, Steingraber demonstrates how carefully the non-public, intimate world of parenting connects to the general public world of coverage-making and the way the continued environmental disaster is, basically, a crisis in household life.

Sandra Steingraber has given human variety one other gift. Elevating Elijah is an instance of the rare potential and talent to bridge the scientific and lay communities. The ebook is completely researched and written in participating, beautiful prose. I could not put it down and stored pondering to myself, ‘Everyone must read this’. The confusing yet essential and timely matters Sandra eloquently discusses should be better understood by everyone. Raising Elijah not solely gives a clearer understanding, it is full of illustrations of what change can look like. I plan on giving this ebook to my health care suppliers, elected officials and mates and invite others to do the same.

There’s a lot of this book value remembering. I’ve learnt a lot studying it; About dioxin, pressure handled wood and its hidden risks, why to keep away from commercial strawberries and tomatoes, about EPA, PVC, even bats and the disease that is killing them. It is inspiring but additionally very sad and serious. It positively makes you think.

Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)

Sandra Steingraber (Author)

368 pages

Da Capo Press (March 29, 2011)

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