Electrical energy has formed the modern world. But how has it affected our health and environment? Over the last 220 years, society has actually developed a universal belief that electricity is ‘safe’ for humanity and the world. Researcher and journalist Arthur Firstenberg interrupts this conviction by informing the story of electrical power in a way it has actually never been told previously– from an environmental perspective– by detailing the impacts that this essential social building block has actually had on our health and our world. In The Invisible Rainbow, Firstenberg traces the history of electrical power from the early eighteenth century to the present, making an engaging case that lots of ecological problems, in addition to the major diseases of industrialized civilization– heart disease, diabetes, and cancer– belong to electrical pollution.
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