SOSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Air Freshener, Nail Polish, Prostate Cancer
Document Summary
Pollution, toxins in our air, water and soil. Products and waste put into our water system. Begins in industrialization and urbanization in late 1800"s. Tremendous increase after wwii expansion of medical production and industrial production. Cancer has risen since the second world war. Bug repellents are used in the environment which harms our homes when we bring it back in. People start to put fertilizers into the garden and uses pesticides to get rid of weeds and bugs. Danger: chemicals were brought indoors and they persist more longer in the inside. Easily transferred in our food chain and the food that we consume. Greater use of process foods, plastic containers, wraps, etc. All these plastics seeks various types of chemicals into the food and our consumption of our food. In illinois, in 1950"s less than 10% of the corn field were sprayed with pesticides, by. Chemicals are used in our house hold cleaners.
