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“EDs [endocrine-disruptors] dehumanize the human race by stealing the ability to love, socialize, enjoy each other, and sit down to converse with others in order to solve problems. Now into the fourth generation of individuals exposed to fossil derived EDs the prognosis is bleak. The recent rapid increase in human health pandemics, especially autism spectrum disorder, provides powerful re-enforcement to the climate change argument. Governments must take heed immediately or there will be too few healthy, intelligent individuals left to preserve our humanitarian society and create some semblance of world peace.” : Theo Colborn's final essay.
by Breast Cancer Fund President and CEO Jeanne Rizzo,
20 December 2014
When I first got involved with the Breast Cancer Fund in the late 90’s, our organization’s founder, Andrea Martin had a dog-eared copy of Our Stolen Future and told me to read it.
Andrea had begun to amass file boxes of research papers and commentary on the environmental links to breast cancer and when I stepped in at the Breast Cancer Fund in 2001, it was clear to me that we had to aggregate the evidence linking carcinogens and endocrine-disrupting chemicals to breast cancer. We held study groups on the subject and invariably someone would reference something in Our Stolen Future. When I eventually met Theo it was like meeting a rock star for me. I was in awe of the work she had done.
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When I first got involved with the Breast Cancer Fund in the late 90’s, our organization’s founder, Andrea Martin had a dog-eared copy of Our Stolen Future and told me to read it.
Andrea had begun to amass file boxes of research papers and commentary on the environmental links to breast cancer and when I stepped in at the Breast Cancer Fund in 2001, it was clear to me that we had to aggregate the evidence linking carcinogens and endocrine-disrupting chemicals to breast cancer. We held study groups on the subject and invariably someone would reference something in Our Stolen Future. When I eventually met Theo it was like meeting a rock star for me. I was in awe of the work she had done.