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15 Will Knight, ‘Big Fall in Sperm Counts Revealed in UK’, New Scientist News
Service, www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994529, 5 January
2004. This article stated, ‘The average sperm count of men may have fallen by as
much as 29 per cent over the past 12 years, according to a large new UK study.’
16 ‘Over 350 Toxins Found in Breast Milk’, BBC News website report,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/391514.stm. The report stated, ‘More than
350 toxic substances have been identified in human breast milk, including
perfumes, suntan oil, pesticides and heavy metals, according to a report due out
today. The report, commissioned by the World Wide Fund for Nature and
quoted by British newspaper The Independent, was based on studies of the
content of breast milk around the world.’
17 Shari Roan, ‘Testing People for Pollutants’, Los Angeles Times, 6 October 2003.
The article says, ‘More than 85,000 synthetic chemicals have been introduced in
the last 50 years for industrial, farming and other uses, yet more than 90% of
them have not been tested for their effects on human health.’
18 See www.ucsusa.org for more information.
19 Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith, eds, The Case Against the Global
Economy, and For a Return Toward the Local, San Francisco: Sierra Club Books,
1996.
20 Lester R. Brown et al., State of the World Report 2001, Washington, DC:
Worldwatch Institute, 2001.
21 www.gsreport.com/articles/art000185.html.
22 http://environmentcentre.nelson.org.nz/stories/storyreader$65.
23 Kazuhiro Uela and Harumi Koizumi, ‘Reducing Household Waste: Japan
Learns from Germany’, Environment, November 2001.
24 Jeremy Rifkin, The End of Work, London: Penguin, 2000, Introduction.