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The Technically Human Podcast

Climate, Chemicals, Carcinogens, Cancer: Dr.Sandra Steingraber challenges the system

Apr 30, 2021
01:00:00

In this episode, I speak to Dr. Sandra Steingraber. We discuss the links between environmental destruction, contamination of vital resources, and the grave dangers that fracking technology poses to human health. Dr. Steingraber explains the link between environmental justice and social justice, and we talk about what the state of collaboration across fields and areas of expertise as universities increasingly turn into what she calls "Disaster Capitalism."

Biologist, author, and cancer survivor Dr. Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. writes about climate change, ecology, and the links between human health and the environment. She has been named a Woman of the Year by Ms. Magazine, a Person of the Year by Treehugger, and one of 25 “Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” by the Utne Reader. She is the recipient of the biennial Rachel Carson Leadership Award and the Jenifer Altman Foundation’s Altman Award for “the inspiring and poetic use of science to elucidate the causes of cancer.” Steingraber received a Hero Award from the Breast Cancer Fund and the Environmental Health Champion Award from Physicians for Social Responsibility, Los Angeles. She has testified in the European Parliament, at the European Commission, before the President’s Cancer Panel, and has participated in briefings to Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency, and before United Nations delegates in Geneva, Switzerland.

This episode was produced by Matt Perry and Ana Marsh.

Podcast art by Desi Aleman.

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