Martin Sheringer: "The Growing Threat from Chemical Pollution"
September 21, 2022
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Episode 37 · September 21, 2022
Martin Sheringer: "The Growing Threat from Chemical Pollution"
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Martin Sheringer: "The Growing Threat from Chemical Pollution"
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<p class="">On this episode, Professor of environmental chemistry Martin Sheringer joins Nate. Together, they discuss Sheringer's most recent paper on PFAS - the 'forever chemicals, their ubiquity in waterways all over the globe, and their numerous critical health effects.</p> <p class="">More broadly, they outline the risks and scenarios of plastic pollution to planetary futures - and what we might do about it. Is it possible to live in a (mostly) plastic free world, and do we really have any other option?</p> <h4>About Martin Sheringer</h4> <p class="">Martin Scheringer is a professor of environmental chemistry at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, and works in the research program on Environmental Chemistry and Modeling at RECETOX. He holds a diploma in chemistry from the Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, and a doctoral degree and a habilitation from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland.</p> <p class="">For Show Notes and Transcript visit: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/37-martin-scheringer</p>
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