Homo Toxicus :: Film Trailer
How many toxins are in our bodies? Carole Poliquin investigates in this documentary.
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"A global experiment is in progress, and we are the guinea pigs." This is the crux of a film written and directed by Carole Poliquin. She documents her investigation—from having her blood tested for the presence of toxins (it contained 110 different toxic substances) to trying to pass out food labeled with the toxins it contains.
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Homo Toxicus
Homo Toxicus provides us with a brilliant glimpse into a side of our society we rarely explore: some of the hidden costs of chasing infinite growth in a world of finite resources. To accomplish this, industries have abandoned natural processes and polluted our environment, and we as consumers have abandoned environmental options in favor of dirty ones with lower sticker prices, polluting our bodies. It should be recognized that when most industrial chemicals were invented no one could have foreseen the long-term consequences of a world with thousands of tons of them. Nevertheless it is now up to us to reduce and eventually eliminate our reliance on them before we have destroyed our environment's ability to support life as we know it.
This film was produced in Canada but the lessons are equally valid worldwide. Not only is our own nation the most wasteful on Earth, but foreign nations end up polluting themselves in order to produce our cheap consumer goods and foods. Polluted clouds and waters know no borders... and so the contagion spreads.
Don't wait for industries or politicians or technologies to change. The time has come for us to change, as individuals, as a matter of survival. Change our eating habits, change our spending habits, change all our wasteful habits. No one else can do that for us, no magic pill can cure it for us, and no iPhone app or electric car or solar panel can fix it for us. We actually have to make the effort and do it ourselves. Change. End the chemicals.