So I'm in my english class. And Mr. is like "You'll need to read the intro, chapter one and two different chapters of 'Slow Death By Rubber Duck' and make a review of it with two other sources as well as yours". Well here we go.

One reviewer on Amazon didn't particular appreciate the message of the book. Dubbbing it as shoddy and easily refuted. "With credit to Terence Corcoran of the Toronto National Post: This book is a shoddy compilation of unproven science scares and junk science gimmicks.

Example: In all author Smith's dramatic fretting, he neglects to mention that the "alarming" volume of the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA)in his urine was actually one two-hundredth of zero-effect safe levels. Thus the test results Smith and Lourie generate prove the opposite of what they claim. "

Another on Goodreads.com said "Wow. WOW. That booked really changed my life.". We can trust this source because we know what this persons life is like (note the sarcasm). She states the book has many reasons to be good. "What I really liked about this book was:

1. Factual information backed up by facts, investigations, scientific tests and interviews with the experts.
2. Personal touch - the authors subjected themselves to the chemical substances most of us encounter on a daily basis to see if it enters their body (yes, you guessed right - they did affect the blood in the most drastic ways!)
3. A chapter on each of the commonly used chemicals - PFOA, bisphenol A, phtalates, mercury, 2,4D, PCBs, triclosan - that get into our bodies via teflon pans, plastic baby bottles, heavily perfumed cosmetics, fish, anti pest treatments, food and even clothing....
4. Engaging style, excellent writing - easy to read (although less easy to digest and imagine the scale of the chemical sea we're all swimming in)"
She even thanked the authors at the end of her review.

Me personally, I dont appreciate the book, in the beginning it talk a bit of a enviromental law being signed, but they had to mention George Bush, did they have to take a jab at him? even though he has a more eco-friendly house than Al Gore? Also when they mention they going to be like "Super Size Me, and Michael Moore" I immediately lost all interest in the book. The reason being is that those "experiments are exceedingly biased and rigged to have a result they wanted. Overall I wouldn't read this book again.

Summary & Reaction to Chemicals

Varma, M. D. "The Hindu : Cities / Chennai : Environment Ministry to Study Impact of Mobile Tower Radiation on Birds." The Hindu : Home Page News & Features. Web. 17 Feb. 2012. http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/article2902901.ece.

On this Indian site; I found an Indian Organization, checking to see what damage cell phone tower does to the ecosystem.  They are worried that the towers may be having a deleterious effect on avian life.

Overall I think this is another way for hippies to whine about how humans are the cause of all problems and we should stop. Well hippies you bring a valid point for being hippies, maybe if we just stop our intercontinental communication along with wireless communication around the world the birds wont have this deleterious effect, and maybe if we stop shipping goods around the world we wont have to spend all the carbon dioxide from all that fuel to get such useless materials such as food, cars, and computers.  we should stop being stupid and stop those evil corporations to stop with their filth...obviously -_-'

Overpopulation in the enviroment.

My prime concern in these enviromental issues is over population of wildlife. Some wildlife if left to their own devices would become an infestation that eats its enviroment from the inside out. Of course I'm talking both about Animals and the most dangerous animal of all: Man.

Overall if we look at the human race and what do we do? we breed A LOT! We also harvest almost our entire enviroment (like oil), we are more likely to die from one of our own kind than from a wild animal.

Overall the other issues in this world are derived from Animal Overpopulation. Save the enviroment, don't have kids.