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Originally Posted by vieve
Just imagine what we could do to save the planet if we weren't spending so much on our war in Iraq....
And about DDT...what did you mean there??? I think the reaction to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, i.e. the public outcry and the resulting ban on DDT is an example of how we can avert an environmental crisis if we all work together.
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I think what he meant was (possibly, Mark?) how it turned out that DDT wasn't really as harmful to humans after all as they thought at the time. And the negatives from banning it were worse (less disease (malaria) control) than the negatives it caused, environmentally speaking.
Which is highly controversial though.