"Hungarian-born Canadian physician Dr. Gabor Maté also ascribes... widespread illnesses and lifestyle risks ─ our leading causes of death and disability ─ to “toxic societies.” ... Maté also cites Australian hospital records showing 9-times higher incidents of breast cancers among women who, after onset of lumps, were emotionally stressed and socially isolated during monitoring.... The proper way to look at [Earth] stewardship is the care and nurturing of other life, not its destruction and exploitation which, Maté explains, are earmarks of toxic societies and byproducts of materialism. Restoring planetary and national health calls for significant cultural and societal reformations... Maté calls it an ideology and way of looking at human beings (and nonhuman animals as well) through psychological connections to others."
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"Making Society Less Toxic Depends on Restoring our Connection to the Rest of Nature and to our 'Better Selves'" Scott Deshefy, CT Examiner (July 12, 2022)
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