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DDT fight.(Science And Environment)
John Pollock, "Dying to be Politically Correct," Acumen: A Journal of the Life Sciences, September/October 2003 (acumenjournal.com)
Governments and public health experts in the middle of the twentieth century hailed the pesticide DDT as a miracle for fighting the insects that carry malaria and a host of other deadly diseases. In the three decades following its 1939 discovery, the pesticide was credited with saving somewhere between 60 and 500 million lives. Rachel Carson's lyrically written 1962 book, Silent Spring, however, charged that DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) was a major threat to human and animal life. The book was a huge breakthrough for the environmental movement. Soon after its publication, DDT was outlawed in most developed countries and became rarely used in the Third World.
Pollock reports that the ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, DDT fight.(Science And Environment)