Greenpeace hates organochlorines鈥擯CBs, dioxins and hundreds less well
known. In Pandora’s Poison, biologist and ex-Greenpeace research
co-ordinator Joe Thornton lays out evidence against them, putting the case for
more benign alternatives to replace them. Lucid and persuasive. Published by MIT
Press, $34.95, ISBN 0262201240.
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