Obesity by toxicity? The wost impact of global fossil fuel consumption may not be global climate change, but the production of myriad novel bioreactive compounds.
Humans are sensitive to minute quantities of hormone disrupting chemicals. So many new chemicals have been synthesized and released into the environment since the dawn of the Chemical Age that something bad must be happening somewhere to someone as a result.
We all understand the local dynamics of chemical exposure: a la Erin Brokovich. We're used to establishing these links based on acute exposure, rather than widespread, diffuse exposure. But who would think to explain such a wide-reaching phenomenon as obesity by chemical exposure?
We're all exposed to pesticides. The effects of these chemicals may be so widespread that we can barely imagine the true scale of their harm. We all understand the Bhopal-type catastrophe. But what is happening if obesity, chronic illness, and autism are due to exposure to 'fracking' chemicals....
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