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henry week8

Henry Browne

Silent spring   week 8

 

I find it kind of amuseing that for some the fact that DDT was used to dust solidgers for lice, makes it ok.  Since the government exsposes its grunts to it, it must be ok.  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.  Prior to World War two Rotenone ( a naturally extractable, bio degradable pesticide derived from  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.

 I find it very interesting that silent spring like many other books of environmental awareness were written half a century ago but are still just as relevant. Perhaps it’s because humans are pack animals, it’s so easy to go with the flow and stay on the path we find our self on. I don’t think the mass public usually believes anything bad will happen until it’s too late. Ill agree it’s a lot easier to pretend everything’s fine, until it isn’t.

Amanda Hakan wk.8 › [0]

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