This was a great book, but it does feel really overwhelming to tackle these enormous, system-wide problems of toxic processes, toxic products, and toxic disposal. There seems to be a huge need for change, especially among people like me--developed world consumers who buy and discard a lot of stuff.
Annie Leonard details the many actions we can take as individuals to keep our homes free-er from toxic stuff. We can also perhaps ever-so-slightly reduce demand for cheap junk (that, in the process of being made, produces a lot of detrimental effects for people in other communities) that doesn't make us happy or more fulfilled, either.
A few ideas that really struck me were that if something is too toxic for my child to play around or use, then it is too toxic for any child. Also, I have long realized that there is no "away" that things get thrown to--no magic place where "trash" ceases to bother anyone. But I didn't realize just how damaging and wasteful landfills are.
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