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A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies
It’s falling from the sky and in the air we breathe. It’s in our food, our clothes, and our homes. It’s microplastic and it’s everywhere—including our own bodies. Scientists are just beginning to discover how these tiny particles threaten health, but the studies are alarming.
"Informed, utterly blindsiding account."
Booklist
"This is a lucid, distressing look at a growing environmental concern."
Publishers Weekly
"Journalist Matt Simon’s urgent new book A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies is classified as environmental science but could comfortably be labeled as horror… densely reported; nearly every sentence is a harrowing, footnoted stat... isn’t necessarily a fun read. But it is unforgettable."
San Francisco Chronicle
"An urgent call to action aimed at curbing the introduction of microplastics into the environment."
Kirkus Reviews
"Essential...shocking...Reading this book will fundamentally change your own relationship with plastic."
Lloyd Alter, Treehugger
Interviews:
Grist
Forum on KQED
Plastic Pollution Coalition webinar
Gadget Lab Podcast
Green Divas
Green Queen
Ecoshock Radio
OCTO webinar
Previously:
Plight of the Living Dead. It's about the many parasites that mind-control their hosts.
“Matt Simon is, to borrow his term, a zombifier: Plight of the Living Dead will infect your brain, forcing you to spout a stream of bizarre facts—about fat-sucking worms, muscle-eating fungi, brain-stabbing wasps—until your friends buy the book for themselves, and the chain of infection continues.”
—Mark Essig, author of Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig
“Spine-tingling . . . Faced with living (and undead) examples of unimaginable suffering, Simon questions the cruelty of nature, explores the way that mind-controlling viruses have ravaged human society, informs us that one in three humans is strolling around with a zombifying parasite right now, and nearly disproves the existence of free will along the way. It’s a fun read that will haunt you to your very core.”
—Gizmodo
“This book is fantastic! The sci-fi stories you’ve read barely hold a candle to the gruesome ways in which parasites manipulate their hosts in real life. This book will make your skin crawl with some of the best examples of manipulation we’ve encountered, fascinate you with what we know about how parasites achieve these amazing feats of control, and leave you wondering what this all means for the nature of free will. You’ll be thinking about this book long after you’re done reading it.”
—Kelly Weinersmith, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies
It’s falling from the sky and in the air we breathe. It’s in our food, our clothes, and our homes. It’s microplastic and it’s everywhere—including our own bodies. Scientists are just beginning to discover how these tiny particles threaten health, but the studies are alarming.
"Informed, utterly blindsiding account."
Booklist
"This is a lucid, distressing look at a growing environmental concern."
Publishers Weekly
"Journalist Matt Simon’s urgent new book A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies is classified as environmental science but could comfortably be labeled as horror… densely reported; nearly every sentence is a harrowing, footnoted stat... isn’t necessarily a fun read. But it is unforgettable."
San Francisco Chronicle
"An urgent call to action aimed at curbing the introduction of microplastics into the environment."
Kirkus Reviews
"Essential...shocking...Reading this book will fundamentally change your own relationship with plastic."
Lloyd Alter, Treehugger
Interviews:
Grist
Forum on KQED
Plastic Pollution Coalition webinar
Gadget Lab Podcast
Green Divas
Green Queen
Ecoshock Radio
OCTO webinar
Previously:
Plight of the Living Dead. It's about the many parasites that mind-control their hosts.
“Matt Simon is, to borrow his term, a zombifier: Plight of the Living Dead will infect your brain, forcing you to spout a stream of bizarre facts—about fat-sucking worms, muscle-eating fungi, brain-stabbing wasps—until your friends buy the book for themselves, and the chain of infection continues.”
—Mark Essig, author of Lesser Beasts: A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig
“Spine-tingling . . . Faced with living (and undead) examples of unimaginable suffering, Simon questions the cruelty of nature, explores the way that mind-controlling viruses have ravaged human society, informs us that one in three humans is strolling around with a zombifying parasite right now, and nearly disproves the existence of free will along the way. It’s a fun read that will haunt you to your very core.”
—Gizmodo
“This book is fantastic! The sci-fi stories you’ve read barely hold a candle to the gruesome ways in which parasites manipulate their hosts in real life. This book will make your skin crawl with some of the best examples of manipulation we’ve encountered, fascinate you with what we know about how parasites achieve these amazing feats of control, and leave you wondering what this all means for the nature of free will. You’ll be thinking about this book long after you’re done reading it.”
—Kelly Weinersmith, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
You can buy my first book, The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar, on Amazon. Or go to your local bookstore. I'm not your father.
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