Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
What is this elusive object, the environment, that impacts us so profoundly--our odds to be born; the way we look, feel and function; and how long and comfortable we may live? A quest for a definition inevitably leads one to the startling revelation that the environment includes us: it is not only everything we see around us but also, at a lesser scale, a hailstorm of molecules large and small that constantly penetrates our bodies, simultaneously nourishing and threatening our health. The concept of oneness with our surroundings urges a reckoning of what we are doing to 'the environment,' and consequently, what we are doing to ourselves. By taking us through this journey of questioning, Rolf Halder's Environment empowers readers with new knowledge and a heightened appreciation of how our daily lifestyle decisions are impacting the places we occupy, our health, and humanity's prospect of survival.
With illustrations by Griffin Finke.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic.
Rolf Halden, PhD, PE, is Director of the Biodesign Center for Environmental Health Engineering, Biodesign Institute, Professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, and Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University, USA. Professor Halden's scientific discoveries and opinions have been covered in documentaries, radio shows, podcasts, and media outlets, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Scientific American, and Forbes. He serves on the Expert Team of the American Chemical Society and has been invited repeatedly to brief decision-makers at the US Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Academies, and members of US Congress on issues pertaining to environmental health and sustainability.
Preface
1. Environmental Beginnings
2. The Stuff We Are Made Of
3. Life in a Bubble
4. Turning Petroleum into People
5. Running Out of Ink for Human Blueprints
6. Tracing Rachel Carson's Path
7. Regrettable Substitutions
8. From Tobacco to Teflon Babies
9. Yesterday's Fuel Becomes Today's Forgetfulness
10. The High Price of Meat
11. Plastic Hangover
12. Shrapnel in Human Eyes and Bodies
13. Diagnosing Humanity
14. One with the Environment
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
What is this elusive object, the environment, that impacts us so profoundly--our odds to be born; the way we look, feel and function; and how long and comfortable we may live? A quest for a definition inevitably leads one to the startling revelation that the environment includes us: it is not only everything we see around us but also, at a lesser scale, a hailstorm of molecules large and small that constantly penetrates our bodies, simultaneously nourishing and threatening our health. The concept of oneness with our surroundings urges a reckoning of what we are doing to 'the environment,' and consequently, what we are doing to ourselves. By taking us through this journey of questioning, Rolf Halder's Environment empowers readers with new knowledge and a heightened appreciation of how our daily lifestyle decisions are impacting the places we occupy, our health, and humanity's prospect of survival.
With illustrations by Griffin Finke.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic.
Rolf Halden, PhD, PE, is Director of the Biodesign Center for Environmental Health Engineering, Biodesign Institute, Professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, and Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University, USA. Professor Halden's scientific discoveries and opinions have been covered in documentaries, radio shows, podcasts, and media outlets, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Scientific American, and Forbes. He serves on the Expert Team of the American Chemical Society and has been invited repeatedly to brief decision-makers at the US Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Academies, and members of US Congress on issues pertaining to environmental health and sustainability.
Preface
1. Environmental Beginnings
2. The Stuff We Are Made Of
3. Life in a Bubble
4. Turning Petroleum into People
5. Running Out of Ink for Human Blueprints
6. Tracing Rachel Carson's Path
7. Regrettable Substitutions
8. From Tobacco to Teflon Babies
9. Yesterday's Fuel Becomes Today's Forgetfulness
10. The High Price of Meat
11. Plastic Hangover
12. Shrapnel in Human Eyes and Bodies
13. Diagnosing Humanity
14. One with the Environment
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
Preface
1. Environmental Beginnings
2. The Stuff We Are Made Of
3. Life in a Bubble
4. Turning Petroleum into People
5. Running Out of Ink for Human Blueprints
6. Tracing Rachel Carson’s Path
7. Regrettable Substitutions
8. From Tobacco to Teflon Babies
9. Yesterday’s Fuel Becomes Today’s Forgetfulness
10. The High Price of Meat
11. Plastic Hangover
12. Shrapnel in Human Eyes and Bodies
13. Diagnosing Humanity
14. One with the Environment
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
An object lesson on how our daily lifestyle decisions are impacting the places we occupy, our health, and humanity’s prospect of survival.
Rolf Halden, PhD, PE, is Director of the Biodesign Center for Environmental Health Engineering, Biodesign Institute, Professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, and Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University, USA.
A passionate and encompassing personal assessment of our origins
and dependency on the natural world. Rolf Halden offers a dire
warning grounded in his career in environmental pollution control:
The world’s most advanced economies can and should enact more
effective policies to protect human health from the hazards of
industrial chemistry.
*Leland H. Hartwell, Nobel Laureate, Director of the Biodesign
Pathfinder Center, Arizona State University, USA*
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