ARCHIVE - Visualizing Ecology - Week 8: Silent Spring http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/taxonomy/term/27/0 en ARCHIVE - henry week8 http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/henry-week8 <p style="line-height: 200%" class="MsoNormal">Henry Browne</p> <p style="line-height: 200%" class="MsoNormal">Silent spring<span>   </span>week 8</p> <p style="text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 200%" class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p> <p style="text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 200%" class="MsoNormal">I find it kind of amuseing that for some the fact that DDT was used to dust solidgers for lice, makes it ok.<span>  </span>Since the government exsposes its grunts to it, it must be ok.<span>  </span>The governments also exsposed solidgers to gulf war sickness and exspieremented with giving solidgers LSD. I think peoples ignorance about the cycling destruction of pesticides stems from are disconnection fr om nature and how we see our self as separate. Poison is poison. Ok so maybe what kills a bug will only cripple you for life, that’s a lot better. I think its ironic that the military that is supposed to protect Americans is responcible for so much harm to them.<span>  </span>Prior to World War two Rotenone ( a naturally extractable, bio degradable pesticide derived from<span>  </span>the Amazonian Ay-ah-e-yah tree) was a very popular pestecide. Then after the war the agricultural market was flooded with highly harmful synthetic pesticides (though to be fair I am sure Rotenone was synthesized at that point. It seems like after the Japanese surrendered the US war machine turned it efforts inward on America’s agriculture. </p><p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/henry-week8">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/henry-week8#comment Week 8: Silent Spring Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:29:22 -0700 brohen24 547 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter ARCHIVE - Davey Kruger week8 http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/davey-kruger-week8 <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Her clear and precise presentation of hind sight undermines my confidence in our society’s ability to learn from its mistakes. This book has been in circulation for almost halve a century, and still we dust our crops poisoning the water, the worms, the fish and our selves. “Storage of the chlorinated hydrocarbons, as we have seen, is cumulative, beginning with the smallest intake.”(pg 190). When my father was a young farmer in Minnesota he was sprayed with DDT, all in an attempt to wipe out 70 to 80 percent of the planets species (294). I may not have been sprayed directly but I know that in all likelihood my body contains trace amounts of that bug killer. I didn’t consume this willingly, but neither did the fish of the Northwest Miramichi.<span>  </span>I can speak out against pesticides and be glad it wasn’t my mother who was sprayed, but I will no doubt consume, before death, so many additional parts per million produced by a factory thousands of miles away. <span> </span>By continuing to spread and ingest pesticides in hopes of an increased crop yield we turn a so called age of science into an age of negligence. In 1960 “twelve per cent of all deaths in children between the ages of one and fourteen are caused by cancer.”(221) In 2007 they are projecting that about 1,444,920 new people will be diagnosed with cancer, and about 1,500 people per day are going to loose their life. (ww.cancer.org/docroot/STT/stt_0.asp) Since there is no sure cure of cancer we must now work on prevention. It is currently improbable to prevent the statistically projected deaths of 2007. We need to turn hindsight to foresight; however I am afraid that we are moving too slow. The deaths of 2007 could have been prevented years and years ago. </font></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/davey-kruger-week8#comment Week 8: Silent Spring Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:55:34 -0800 krudav10 445 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter ARCHIVE - Amanda Hakan wk.8 http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/amanda-hakan-wk-8 &quot;DDT is no so universally used that in most minds the product takes on the harmless aspect of the familiar. Perhaps the myth of the harmlessness of DDT rests on the fact that one of its first uses was the wartime dustingofmany thousandsof soldiers, refugees, and prisoners, to combat lice&quot; (pg.21).<div><br /></div><div>The naiveness of people at this time period, when DDT was first intorduced as a pesticide, is really astonishing. They believed that just because it was used to get rid of or prevent lice to soldiers in the war was enough proof to use it on their produce. I dont understand why it didnt cross their minds that yes, it kills/prevents lice, KEYWORD KILLS, but doesnt that mean its considered poison???? Just because the soldiers survived the &#39;dusting&#39; of DDT doesnt mean that its fine to have direct contact with it.</div><p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/amanda-hakan-wk-8">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter/amanda-hakan-wk-8#comment Week 8: Silent Spring Sun, 25 Feb 2007 14:39:06 -0800 hakama16 436 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/visecowinter