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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The People's Protector | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

...with its sonic boom and probable pollution of the stratosphere. Nixon offered no proposals for curbing exhaust from the 83 million old cars now on the roads. Moreover the President paid little attention to the key problem of enforcement. Last fall, for example, the Federal Government announced that DDT must soon be phased out of use in the U.S. But delaying actions by farmers and manufacturers are likely to keep the persistent pesticide in use for years to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Nixon Starts the Cleanup | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

Likewise, our pacification man offers the Prince some DDT: "It's been declared too dangerous for use in the U. S. A. but not anywhere else...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: New York Sheep in the Balcony "Sheep on the Runway," Helen Hayes Theatre, N. Y. C. | 2/13/1970 | See Source »

Flash: the Department of Agriculture has just discovered how to banish pests without lethal insecticides like DDT. "Beer, either fresh or stale," reports the department's recent newsletter, "is substantially superior to other bait compounds used to control slugs, one of the most troublesome pests infesting farms, gardens and greenhouses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Dead Drunk Slugs | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

...hike in food prices. Fortunately, ecologists are developing reasonable replacements; there is nothing wrong with organic fertilizers or the prechemical method of crop rotation. Much is also being learned about the biological control of pests. To kill the leaf hopper Dikrella, which destroys grapes and is now immune to DDT, California ecologists have employed a tiny wasp?and the cost of controlling leaf hoppers has declined by 87% since the wasp buzzed into action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Fighting to Save the Earth from Man | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

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