Getting cancer from chemicals is so last month. Get cancer from being green instead!

Your hybrid, though reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, could be the source of a cancer-causing electromagnetic field! Your tofu, presumably a substitute for overconsumption of meat, could give you thyroid cancer — deforestation aside! Reading Grist, your indispensable source of environmental enlightenment, could give you cancer! My, you can’t take a breath these days without finding out that breathing gives you cancer!

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What’s a paranoid enviro to do?

The answer to this and many, many, many other questions: Wear silver underwear!

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