Word: ddt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was a brief period of silence, and then Sheppard started a chant, "Stop Cam." The demonstrators filed through Ford's office on their way out of the building. One student carried on his shoulder a briefcase with the sticker "BAN DDT...
THERE has not been a topic for such worried conversation since James Baldwin forecast the fire next time. Suburban matrons predict the melting of the polar icecaps followed by catastrophic floods. Busy executives and bearded hippies discuss the presence of DDT in the flesh of Antarctic penguins. All sorts of Americans utter new words like ecosystem and eutrophication. Pollution may soon replace the Viet Nam war as the nation's major issue of protest...
...University in St. Louis, is a prolific lecturer and writer (Science and Survival) who brings an ecologist's insight and a polemicist's passion to the dangers of environmental pollution. "The new technological man," says Commoner, "carries strontium 90 in his bones, iodine 131 in his thyroid, DDT in his fat and asbestos in his lungs. There is now simply not enough air, water and soil on earth to absorb man-made poisons without effect. If we continue in our reckless way, this planet before long will become an unsuitable place for human habitation." At Washington University, Commoner...
Happily, it is also one of many pest controls that can keep gardens green with out the dangers of DDT and similar chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides...
Thoughtful gardeners should choose the least toxic control available; if it is a poison, they should buy the smallest quantity necessary. Above all, says Cry California, swear off DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons. The ecosystem you save will be your...