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This entertaining, informative and imaginative adventure combines fiction with facts, jarring realities and unexpected environmental insights. Morgan and Elisabeth explore truth in their own communications as they unravel human disease mysteries, strange deaths, mutations and massive extinctions of land and sea animals.
The story begins in Boston:
Morgan, an environmentalist, picks up a hitchhiker, Elisabeth, an entomologist.
"…She looked at me again with the same sideways smile as she pushed back her hair, grabbing it like a ponytail and releasing, revealing a beaming, rosy glow to her face as if my words had landed on her cheeks.
"Yes." Newly empowered by her readable blushing I ventured more, "I'm drawn to you. From right now I want to know you. Talk true from the start. "I poured it out almost without control.
Elisabeth's sarcasm was quick, "Oh come on now. What planet do you live on?"
They travel around India:
"Across from us on the other side of the road another bus had stopped. It was really a dilapidated motorized wagon with a cloth top. It was mobbed and still filling with passengers, bags and other containers. The vehicle was life itself. Its guts were a sweating pile of humanity bulging beyond its meager frame, its human skin holding on, swaying, dangling and ready to fall off."
Morgan and Elisabeth enter deep and mysterious caves to attend a secret conference about the dangerous situation causing human dis-figuration and hundreds of deaths.
"They all stayed close to the light and followed Rizwan downward through an intricate network of winding passageways, impossible to traverse without his experienced guidance. Half an hour later a warm pulsating firelight appeared in front of them as they walked into a huge open chamber."
"Morgan was drawn in by the light reflecting from the rock. It highlighted the lines of life in the farmer's furrowed and still shiny face. The wisdom of experience was intoned in the orator' voice. The man was standing upon his story as if it were a carpet unrolling with soil and atmosphere, farming from the sun and sky, his life rooting into the earth, entwined and scratching the world for food."
Deep in the cave, Morgan gets very personal: "O.K. My thought is to break the stereotypical bonds we are all indoctrinated with. Remove the porno and religious dogma from masturbation and everything inevitably connected and implied by those attitudes. Experience a bond directly to your own DNA; a method of reconnecting to our own design.
Elisabeth contemplates," We are witnesses to experiments upon an unsuspecting people. ...We are ingesting the identical chemicals in North American and around the world."
The characters face life-changing consequences as they learn of their own body burden of chemicals. Some scientists think that five days of continuous antibiotic use can kill up to one third of the tens of trillions of micro-organisms found in the vast human micro-biome. In a child or compromised adult, this loss may remove some biological components which are necessary for normal immune development and function.
"Morgan," exclaimed Elisabeth, "It is ironic, don't you think? Back in the war the scientists were trying to make poisons to kill people. Soon it was, and still is, used to save people from malaria, kill mosquitoes and other little beasties. Now we find it in our food. Has it come back to harm and possibly kills us?"
A speck floating in the air becomes a morsel in a stream caught by a fish you eat. Hidden within that fish, or on a piece of fruit, vegetable, nut or meat, invisible tentacles of the beast reaches into you. The insidious toxin moves through you and quietly alights. Your body, to protect you from the fragment, suspends it in the fat around your organs.
The abhorrent chemical poison is released by your liver when you need energy. The villain in your...
Título : The Canary Died
EAN : 9781370632817
Editorial : Dana A. Mason
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