Environmental health, the state of our environment, has direct and indirect impacts on human health, sometimes of great significance, but the facts go largely ignored and even denied by industry and government. Industry fights environmental regulation with "poor me" financial arguments and undeserved governmental influence, while quality of life continues to deteriorate. The survival of humans and the Earth absolutely depend on natural resources. "Sustainability" requires fresh air, clean water, uncontaminated food. Ultimately, corporate pollution is genocide. THIS IS THE MOST CRITICAL ISSUE WE HAVE EVER FACED.

Global economics, like fashion, is bad ecology. We live in a fairly unhealthy environment. Our air, water, soils are so polluted they may never recover. Pollution leads to job loss, environmental injustice, social ills, crime, etc. The so-called "global economy" is really old bad habits in disguise and promotes unfair competition, not cooperation, and is therefore very corruptible (who really gets the "green" from the "Green Revolution"?). Corporate giants have usurped the democratic power of the People. People have become THE "special" interest group. "Democracy" means putting people first. When millions of people are suffering and dying, we have a HOLOCAUST, and no democracy. Above all, harm must be rooted out. Campaign finance reform and voter registration won't stop the slaughter. The most basic human right is the right to life -- to protect one's health and safety. Injury from pollution represents a major threat to basic Constitutional guarantees. Twice as many deaths result from corporate pollution as from violent crime and car accidents. Three to four times as many women as men report suffering from Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome -- one of many outcomes of chemical injury. Children in smog-bound cities grow up with serious lung damage.

Many people are sick from environmental illnesses of various forms without knowing it. They need information about safe and sane approaches to solving chemical exposure problems. You could be next! Let's get smart about environmental health: it's our health, too! We all need appropriate, sustainable technologies, and "caring capitalism," not rampant, toxic corporado greed. The entire human race suffers from a degenerative form of environmental illness called the "high life," or "progress": pollution, overcrowding, hunger, ignorance, poverty, crime, strange new diseases, etc. A few have been allowed to profit handsomely at the expense of the rest, yet escape responsibility for the mess they have left behind. The advertising snow jobs from manufacturers and Madison Avenue tell us that smelly is clean, that living is better because of their chemistry. But the chemically poisoned know better. "Progress" has been poison to us. We need appropriate technology and products, not more "chemical addiction." We need to overcome the ignorance and greedy attitudes that surround us.

This book is a small start in that direction. It has three parts, covering shelter & building, growing food & community, and making a living (on your own). The ultimate aim is for us all to do things in an easier and healthier, and hopefully cheaper, way. I have included some of my favorite reference materials. I hope you will interpret and use the book to benefit your life and your environment.

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