Sandra Steingraber's brave, clear, and careful voice is certain to break the. She goes on to show similar correlation in other communities, such as Boston and Long Island, and throughout the United States, where cancer rates have risen alarmingly since mid-century. Living Downstream is for all readers who care about the health of their families and future generations. Sandra’s highly acclaimed book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment presents cancer as a human rights issue. Through research and personal experience, Steingraber executes an. Film version of Living Downstream brings Steingrabers message to a new audience.
Writing from the twin perspectives of a survivor and a concerned scientist, she traces the high incidence of cancer and the terrifying concentrations of environmental toxins in her native rural Illinois. This book tells the story of the connection between cancer and environmental contamination. In her early twenties, Sandra Steingraber was afflicted with cancer, a disease that has afflicted other members of her adoptive family. LIVING DOWNSTREAM AN ECOLOGIST LOOKS AT CANCER AND THE ENVIRONMENT by Sandra Steingraber RELEASE DATE: JA graceful, precise delineation of the ugly marriage between synthetic chemicals in the environment and rising cancer rates, from poet/biologist Steingraber. Based on the acclaimed book by ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., Living Downstream is an eloquent and cinematic feature-length documentary following Sandra during one pivotal year as she works to break the silence about cancer and its environmental links.
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