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Toxic Substances AlterLinks Topic Index Arsenic-Laced Coffee is Good for You Would You Like Sugar With That? Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The Environmental Protection Agency, in 2013, identified about 1,000 chemicals that the oil and gas industry uses in fracking operations, most of them carcinogens at the strengths they shove into the earth. Cancer is Capitalist Violence Anthropology Against Oncology Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 It’s been two decades since the publication of Martha Balsham’s landmark study, “Cancer in the Community: Class and Medical Authority (1993).” Balshem, a hospital-based anthropologist, documented how a Philadelphia “lay community” rejected medical advice to stop smoking, eat fruits and vegetables and schedule regular screening tests. The working class community of Tannerstown (a pseudonym) instead blamed air pollution from highway traffic and nearby chemical plants, as well as fate, for their cancers. Censored: The News That Didn't Make The News - And Why The 1995 Project Censored Yearbook Resource Type: Book Published: 1996 Documenting how the U.S. mass media does a shabby job, deliberately or negligently withholding information of vital importance. Connexions Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1984 Connexions Digest Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990 Connexions Digest Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1991 New generation: Growing up reading Rachel Carson, scientists unravel risks of new pesticides Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Like biologist Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring warned about the devastating effects of DDT, a new generation of scientists is trying to figure out if new pesticides -- which are being used in ever-increasing numbers, quantities, and combinations -- are harming living things they’re not intended to kill, including birds. The World Without Us Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.

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