Everything Is Natural: Exploring How Chemicals Are Natural, How Nature Is Chemic

Description: Everything Is Natural by James Kennedy Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description This book explores the history of chemical fears, events that have amplified it and how manufacturers, teachers, journalists etc. can make better connections with the public by telling stories that are more engaging about chemistry. Publisher Description Since the early 1990s, advances in toxicology have allowed scientists to detect traces of adulterant substances in everyday products – even down to parts per billion concentrations. We can now detect the presence of harmful ingredients at levels so low that they actually cause no harm.Nonetheless, we get scared. We are now able to overreact to harmless, negligible sources of contamination and flock to natural, organic and chemical-free alternative products at elevated prices instead. This urge is driven in part by a set of interesting psychological quirks called the naturalness preference or biophilia. While exposure to many aspects of nature improves our physical and mental wellbeing, marketers are taking advantage of our naturalness preference by selling us organic and natural products with no functional advantage, sometimes to the detriment of the environment, and that have the unfortunate added effect of peddling a fear of conventional products that do not make such natural connotations. This fear of chemicals, exaggerated by marketers, has led some of us to seek nature in the form of expensive consumer product, which offer almost none of the benefits of spending time outdoors in real nature (which is free of charge).We thus chase nature in the wrong form. We feel guilt, anxiety and mental stress from being coaxed into paying a hefty premium price for "natural" products that are neither safer nor more effective than conventional ones, and forget to appreciate real nature in the process.This book explores the history of chemical fears and the recent events that amplified it. It describes how consumers, teachers, doctors, lawmakers and journalists can help make better connections with the public by telling stories that are more engaging about chemistry and materials science. Written in a sympathetic way, this book explains both sides of the argument for anyone with an interest in science. Author Biography James Kennedy is a British chemistry teacher and passionate chemistry spokesperson. He founded the chemistry outreach initiative Sincerely, Chemicals in 2017. Since graduating from the University of Cambridge with a Masters degree in Natural Sciences in 2010, James Kennedy has pursued a passion for science communication and science outreach by using festivals, lectures, seminars, conferences, posters and T-shirts to make chemistry more open and accessible for the public. He is a vocal pro-chemistry advocate who writes pro-chemistry articles and speaks in radio and podcast interviews. His first published book, Everything is Natural, stems from a passion to communicate the overwhelmingly positive contribution that science – particularly materials science and chemistry – has made to our modern standard of living. Currently, teaching chemistry to Monash Universitys Foundation Year students in Melbourne, Australia, he has been teaching for 9 years and researching the fear of chemicals for 4 years. He lives with his wife and daughter in Melbourne, Australia. Details ISBN 1839162406 ISBN-13 9781839162404 Title Everything Is Natural Author James Kennedy Format Paperback Year 2021 Pages 182 Publisher Royal Society of Chemistry GE_Item_ID:147605050; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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