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Our stolen future describes theo colborn s efforts to find links between environmental. By theo colborn, diane dumanoski, and john peterson myers. Just as carson was pilloried for her 1962 book silent spring, which warned of the dangers of the pesticide ddt, colborn has been in the hot seat for her 1996 book our stolen future co. About our stolen future a critically important book that forces us to ask new questions about the synthetic chemicals that we have spread across this earth.
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