Alice Shabecoff Environmental Symposium: We Are Not Alone
With each generation since the mid-1940s, the rates of autism climb higher and higher. And so do the rates of other serious illnesses, from childhood cancer to life-threatening asthma and birth defects. By now, one out of every three American child suffers from a chronic illness. This terrible trend started with our nation’s unremitting, unexamined foray into ‘Better Living through Chemicals’ and unregulated, intensely-polluting industrialization, including nuclear power.
Alice will provide an overview of the rates and growth of childhood illnesses over these decades, and an overview of the sources of increased pollution in our children’s daily lives that, science now shows, trigger these illnesses. She will focus on the threats that all the childhood disorders face in common.
Today we are in the midst of a scientific revolution equal to Pasteur’s discovery of germs: Alice offers a layman’s understanding of the key discoveries of this new science. In particular, she will discuss endocrine disruption and its connection to autism as well as other neurodevelopmental disorders. She will discuss what science knows today about cause-and-effect, and why some children become ill while others do not.
Are there solutions to this devastating advance of disease and disability? Alice will examine the reasons that most American parents remain in the dark about the scale of this devastation and potential danger to their children. She will examine some of reasons that hold parents back from attacking this threat. She will call upon the parents and researchers in this conference to forge alliances with others who are fighting for the lives of their children no matter what the illness.
Alice Shabecoff is coauthor with her husband Philip of Poisoned for Profit, just released in paperback (first published in 2008 as Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on our Children). She is a member of the Board of Directors of Birth Defect Research for Children. She served in the 1970s as executive director of the National Consumers League, the country’s oldest consumer organization, and in the 1980s as founder and executive director of the national nonprofit Community Information Exchange, an information service for the community development sector. Her articles on children’s environmental health appear on numerous websites including MomsRising, HealthSentinel, Non-ToxicKids and the European Chemical Sensitivity Network. As a freelance journalist covering consumer and children’s affairs, she has been widely published in the U.S. and overseas.
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