Living Downstream

Today I want to share with you a book that discusses in great length what happens when one area is polluted, causing effects miles and miles down from the original pollution location.

This book is Living Downstream written by Sandra Steingraber.

It's a good read.

Steingraber explores in her book the cause and effects of pollutants and carcinogens (cancer causing) in our water systems and beyond. Her chapters are divided up as follows:

Trace Amounts
Silence
Time
Space

War
Animals
Earth
Air
Water
Fire
Our Bodies, Inscribed
Ecological Roots

If you are at all curious to know about what is in our waters, soil, plants, and animals that we both see and consume give this book a read. I promise you won't regret it.

It has been some time since I've read this piece of writing cover to cover, but I often refer to it when talking about how what someone does in one area affects another area.