Word: ddt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DDT Eaters And Other Eco-Centrics...
...Instead of a vitamin a day, Pest Control Executive Robert Loibl and his wife Louise start breakfast with a 10-mg. capsule of DDT. After 93 days on DDT, the North Hollywood, Calif., couple figured they had ingested as much of the pesticide (some 300 times more than the average daily intake) as persons consuming food dusted with the chemical would get in 83 years. "We feel better than we used to," crows Loibl. "In fact, I think my appetite has increased since I began taking DDT...
...businessmen and conservatives with whom he feels most comfortable. Two weeks ago, he addressed members of the National Petroleum Council and fired off his latest gripes in a speech titled "Wait a Minute." Among other things, he wants the nation to "wait a minute" before banning the use of DDT, forcing detergent manufacturers to remove phosphates from their products, making offshore drilling "too difficult," or closing down industries guilty of polluting if they support entire communities. He opposes tough enforcement of federal air-pollution standards, which he says were set "without regard to the economic costs...
...used to battle the bug by dousing forests with DDT. While the persistent pesticide killed the gypsy moth, it also wiped out beneficial insects and harmed birds. As a result, DDT had lost so much favor that when the moth population exploded last year, the bugs went mainly unsprayed. They denuded almost 1,000,000 acres of trees and laid billions of eggs for an even worse infestation this year...
...combat the new onslaught, the pesticide industry offered up a chemical poison trademarked Sevin. It is not as toxic or long-lived as DDT, but just as surely kills the caterpillars. Nonetheless, environmentalists strongly oppose Sevin because it is fatal to fresh-water insects, fingerling fish and bees. Heeding the environmentalists' warnings, residents of most infested areas this year voted against aerial spraying of pesticides and settled back to let nature take its course...