Lessons from Minamata, Seveso, Bhopal and other cases of corporate chemical negligence. Attempts to corrupt the political process. Climate denial linked to chemical denial. The ‘dirty dozen’ supertoxics. Offshoring of toxics industry to unregulated countries. Chemical codes, guidelines and the failure of regulation. Who is really responsible? How the consumer drives chemical demand.

Describes mounting scientific evidence for individual, lifelong poisoning by man-made chemical emissions, showing how it begins in the womb, continues through childhood, accumulates through life and persists after death. Chemical exposure is mainly from food, drinks, cosmetics and air in the home, workplace, urban and rural environments. Pollution the largest environmental cause of disease and premature death in the world today.

Describes major categories of chemical pollution and poisoning of which the public is still largely unaware: e-waste, nanopollution, plastics, novel pesticides, chemical intensification, chemical weapons, illicit drugs, eutrophication of waters. Humanity fated to poison itself. Role of the educated consumer in detoxing the Earth.

How modern chemistry misleads consumers. Mounting scientific and medical concerns over the effects of chemical mixtures arising from substances released, deliberately and unintentionally, into the biosphere by human activity, breakdown processes etc. Emerging patterns of disease and medical concerns associated with human exposure to complex chemical mixtures.

Story of early life and the oxygen Holocaust >2400 million years ago. Impact of oxygen overload on early life. Worst extinction event. Evolution of oxygen-dependent life. Irony of human chemical deluge. Moral of the tale.

Success stories in clean-up of toxic sites. Sydney, Singapore, US Superfund. Key global chemical treaties. New approaches to chemical clean-up. Shortcomings in scientific, medical and chemical training. Curbing the global toxic deluge. Citizen responsibility for a cleaner Planet.

Describes growing human health issues linked to exposure to a multiplicity of chemicals and mixtures. Impacts on the human brain, intelligence and mental disorders, autism, ADHD, depression, child and adult cancers, developmental diseases of children, sexual, gender and reproductive disorders, obesity and diabetes, ‘mystery’ disorders, re-emergence of ‘old’ conditions. The epigenetic curse. The case for precaution.

Explains how man-made ‘pollution’ – often seen as a local problem – has become a virtual river flowing round the entire planet. Describes contamination of oceans, remote regions, air in homes and cities, effect of plastics, impacts on wildlife. Defines six modes of chemical transport. Pollution is now universal, affecting all people and most of life on Earth

Parents inspiring the fightback against the toxic deluge. Learning to think ‘as a species’ about global threats. How consumers can help clean up the Earth. A Global Detox Alliance. A scientific plan for global clean-up. A chemist’s oath to ‘do no harm’. A human right not to be poisoned. A ten-point plan for a cleaner, safer, healthier Earth.

The ‘greatest existential emergency in history’ facing humanity. The ten mega-threats and the need to solve them together and in an integrated way. How the chemical threat interacts with the other nine threats. Solution of all ten threats is the key to human survival, wellbeing and prosperity.

Using latest science, explains the quantum of man-made chemical emissions, the main sources and the cost in human life. First global estimate of total anthropogenic chemical emissions and circulation. The issue is far larger than most people or governments imagine.