Environmentalist Rick Smith Talks about Indoor Pollutants We All Encounter
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
From shampoo to carpeting to baby bottles, chemicals are prevalent in our everyday items. Author Rick Smith discusses accompanying concerns such as:
- The depth of this issue, calling it the second great pollution problem facing humanity.
- Why the health effects of pollution from such chemicals are prevalent and should be taken seriously.
- Alternatives for many everyday products that are available.
Co-author of Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things and director of Canada's Broadbent Institute, environmentalist Rick Smith describes the research he and co-author Bruce Lourie underwent to see common results of living in close quarters with chemicals. The prevalence of chemicals such as BPA in eating containers raised alarms and he wondered about the health effects of pollution on our bodies from such chemicals.
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He tells how he and his co-author experimented on themselves over 10 years with their own blood and urine samples. They would establish a baseline first, and then, for example, cook with plastic and retest themselves to see if there was an increase in chemical levels. In most cases, the answer was yes.
Mr. Smith details various other household products to be aware of, from shampoo to cosmetics to paint. He explains the danger and prevalence of phthalates and discusses how it can work as a hormonal disruptor in our body.
Finally, he offers good news about the results of consumer pressure and tells the listener about safe alternatives for many of these products.
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| 1:27.3 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs. |
| 1:29.3 | I have Rick Smith. |
| 1:30.4 | He's the author of two books, Slow Death by Rubber Duck, |
| 1:34.5 | How the Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Life Effects Our Health, which came out in 2009. |
| 1:38.9 | And Toxin Talks Out in 2014. |
| 1:41.3 | And he's also the executive director of the Broadbent Institute in in canada so rick thanks for coming how you doing today been great thank you it's a pleasure to be here what have you decided is your role and what's what's important about our environment to you personally well i mean your listeners i'm'm sure, have heard a lot about climate change and about |
| 2:02.4 | the threat that climate change poses. I've really focused my work on the second great pollution |
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