I recommend this article called Capitalism, Pollution and the Solution at workerspower.com to get an idea of the ways capitalism is implicated in environmental pollution; it seems to frame the discussion of EDCs as well as "climate change" and other such issues, provided that you can sift through the communist calls to revolution.
Heres the problem for Marxists,
"no capitalist government or business is ultimately going to do anything that damages their profits." Note the part where the dichotomy is laid between "bureaucratic planned economy" and "democratic planned economy". Namely "The Chernobyl disaster proved that state ownership in itself is no guarantee of acceptable security, if it is under bureaucratic control. In the case of the Stalinist states, the drive for mass industrialisation from the bureaucracy meant that there was no democratic input. The five year plans of industrialisation did not take into account the environmental impact, only the need to fulfil the quotas of production." Their assumption seems to be that the majority in a democratic socialism would have the best of intentions for fellow man, future man, and mother nature.
If it was 100% proven that cell phones reduce human life expectancy by 5 years and will extinguish the entire Beluga whale species in the near future, how many people would stop using theirs? For me, its not just corporate greed and the wealthy to blame, but rather it is that we LOVE and CHERISH modernity till death do we part -a modernity concieved and begotten through through industry's rape of mother nature. How far would you be willing to go to eliminate your exposure to EDCs, considering the fact that they are virtually everywhere and in everything?
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