Word: ddt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important thing is that they stopped using hard pesticides here." B and G phased out its use of DDT...
...Department of Agriculture, says Ehrlich, is "a subsidiary of the petrochemical industry that produces DDT and other insecticides...
Panelist Barry Commoner, professor of plant physiology at Washington University and chairman of the Committee on Alteration of the Environment, said, "You're the first generation in the history of man to carry DDT in your fat and Strontium 90 in your bones...
Roxanne O'Connell reports that 10,000 pelican chicks won't be born this year because pelican eggs are collapsing and killing the embryos. The mothers ingested DDT which upset their calcium metabolism. That caused them to lay thin-shelled eggs that could not support their weight. Pelican eggs collapsed in the rookeries all the way from Anacapa to Mexico. The pelican, the osprey, the cormorant, the petrel, the seagull, the American Bald Eagle and the peregrine falcon: all of their eggs are collapsing, the shells are too thin. No new generations are being born...
...conferences and conventions. "Man has created a new environment, but he has not created a new man," he argues. Johnson uses more than words to guard man against some of the threats of his self-imposed surroundings. Last spring, for example, after FDA scientists found unusually high levels of DDT in Lake Michigan coho salmon, Johnson helped to engineer a HEW order aimed at phasing out use of the chemical...