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Title: Green Intelligence

Subtitle: Creating Environments That Protect Human Health

Author: John Wargo

Narrator: Michael Lenz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-20-12

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Environment

Publisher's Summary:

We live in a world awash in manmade chemicals, from the pesticides on our front lawns to the diesel exhaust in the air we breathe. Although experts are beginning to understand the potential dangers of these substances, there are still more than 80,000 synthetic compounds that have not been sufficiently tested to interpret their effects on human health. Yale University professor John Wargo has spent much of his career researching the impact of chemical exposures on women and children. In this book, he explains the origins of society's profound misunderstanding of everyday chemical hazards and offers a practical path toward developing greater "green intelligence".

Despite the rising trend in environmental awareness, information about synthetic substances is often unavailable, distorted, kept secret, or presented in a way that prevents citizens from acting to reduce threats to their health and the environment. By examining the histories of five hazardous technologies and practices, Wargo finds remarkable patterns in the delayed discovery of dangers and explains the governments' failures to manage them effectively. Sobering yet eminently readable, Wargo's book ultimately offers a clear vision for a safer future through prevention, transparency, and awareness.

Named a favorite Science Book of 2009 by Scientific American

Critic Reviews:

"A great book on one of the most neglected aspects of the human predicament - the toxification of our planet. An engrossing read as well as a dependable source of information." (Paul R. Ehrlich)

"[Wargo's] arguments are empirical, scientifically literate and ultimately convincing.... The result is a powerful indictment of a flawed system." (New Scientist)

"This prodigious book is that rare combination which not only produces indignation by informing, but also catalyzes action and guides reform by inspiring." (Frances Beinecke, President, Natural Resources Defense Council [NRDC])

Members Reviews:

Good Introduction/Overview to Environmental Contamination/Health

This book is great. It reminded me of Zinn's A People's History of the US except from an environmental policy perspective. Zinn starts his foray with Native Americans watching white explorers pull up to their shores(we all know how that turned out for them) and moves on to untold details of America's decision to bomb Japan in WWII. Wargo similarly starts his narrative with the US military forcing natives off their land in the remote pacific in order to test their nuclear arsenal. From there it is just unsugarcoated anecdote after another ranging from misinformed neglect up through preventable atrocities involving human contamination. At the tail end it shifts into plans to map out a better future for environmental health. If you don't think our unsafe environmental direction and chemical risk is so much an issue of tragedy of the commons but rather a tragedy of common ignorance and common denial then this is recommended text for you and your peers, a fast read that can easily be slipped into the holes that now lay occupied by the heads of ostriches.

This book will motivate you to make changes to your environment

This is an outstanding and engaging read on major historical events and processes that are happening to our planet.