If you've been paying any attention at all to our environment news, you're probably a little terrified with the recent updates and stories. Just today I found out that oral contraceptives are harmful for the environment - who knew that you peed out the synthetic estrogen (which is more potent than natural), which then flows into our water treatment systems and sneaks its way past into our rivers and lakes? I actually looked into natural membrane condoms (latex sensitivity) and stopped when I found out they were three for $6.00. I'm also not interested in sticking a copper T-shaped instrument up the hoo-haa, nor do I think that natural family planning is really a 21st-century method of birth control - please argue if you think I'm wrong. I'd like to know more.
Ok, I'd gone on quite the tangent there. But I've come across this book that's next on my 'To-Read' list: The Big Thaw - Travels in the Melting North, Ed Struzik which is written on first-hand accounts of trips to the Arctic, what was found, what's changing and what's about to happen. Not only to the life in the Arctic itself, but what will inevitably affect the entire world. To get a feel for the devastation and emotional urgency of this book, check out Ed Struzik's Video (a 50 minute version is also available on YouTube).
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