The american environmental movement has always been around and is looking for the protection of mother nature, a catalyst for their movements was Rachel Carlson. Nature is a very important part of life as a whole and its important that we learn to treat it with respect. Nature can also be quite dangerous so its understandable how some people could get scared of certain parts of it. DDT is a pesticide that was created in order to combat the high amount of mosquitoes and insects around the world but mostly america. DDT became extremely overused all around the world and Rachel Carlson
Rachel Carlson in her book titled, silent spring mentioned the harms of constant DDT use. While DDT is an effective bug killer its also poison. It can. Linger in the air and in the water harming nature and humans alike. It stays in our bodies and can be transmitted even to our children. DDT was very widley used but after Rachel published her book and was backed up by government resarch DDT used was restricted and controlled in many places around the world. However in some plsces especially in africa the rise of malaria was an increasing problem and since people always need to find a victim people pinned the blame on rachel carlson and her book. Even stoffel of fox news called her a mass murderer. Thats a bit intense in my opinion of course but people always need to blame someone and people even used as an excuse to bash on women and in progressive ideologies. Because people love making things political. And so after decades and years of studies and diseases people have discovered that the main problem ar the mosquitoes themselves. Mosquitoes are very adaptable and evolutive creatures, they constantly adapt to these methods of dealing with them to the point where methods can become completely innefective. They get more resistant basically. Scientists are working hard to use this against them in a fight to make them be able to be controlled efficiently once and for all.
humans love to jump the bandwagon. If someone says something is bsd then everyone says its bad. If someone says something is goof then everyone says its good and people always look for excuses to either treat people badly or call them out on things. This whole debacle was used by many people as an excuse to bash on women and their potential. DDT as a concept was great but in execution was also good but not as good as thought to be. Rachels observations were incredible and its very important to hear what everybody has to say from the beginning so we can keep developing better and better ideas as a society.
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