Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic by Marla Cone

Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic


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ISBN: 9780802142597 | 256 pages | 13 Mb

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Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic Marla Cone
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.


Traditionally thought of as the last great unspoiled territory on Earth, the Arctic is in reality home to some of the most contaminated people and animals on the planet. Tons of dangerous chemicals and pesticides from the United States, Europe, and Asia are being carried to the Arctic by northbound winds and waves and amplified in the ocean's food web. Polar bears near the North Pole are increasingly born with altered immune systems and sex hormones. Inuit women who eat seal and whale meat have far higher concentrations of PCBs and mercury in their breast milk than women who live in the most industrialized areas of the world, and they pass these poisons to their infants, leaving them susceptible to disease. As a result, Arctic people are among the most contaminated human beings on Earth, some of them carrying chemicals that technically would qualify their bodies as hazardous waste. Author Marla Cone reports with an insider's eye on the dangers of pollution to native peoples and ecosystems, how Arctic cultures are adapting to this pollution, and what solutions will prevent the crisis from getting worse.

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