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What's wrong with herbicides? I can understand why people fear insecticides, but herbicides are pretty harmless.
by Houshalter 10y ago
What's wrong with herbicides? I can understand why people fear insecticides, but herbicides are pretty harmless.
- lolc 10y agoHarmless for who?
- collyw 10y agoThe majority of the human population would be my guess.
- lolc 10y agoI was deploring the fact that the debate is being reduced to the direct effects on humans, instead of considering the whole ecosystem. Saying that herbicides are "harmless to the majority of the human population" is not only a gross simplification that is false on many levels, it also misses the point.
- jacoblambda 10y agoThey still pose the same problem as all the other pesticides in that they can one, contaminate the water if misused and two, they accelerate natural selection if misused because they weed out all the pests less the strong and resistant ones. This causes the pesticides to be used in greater capacity and so on and so on.
- Houshalter 10y agoSource on contaminating the water? I've never heard of any issues with that. Resistance is bad, but if you are against herbicides at all what's the issue? We can invent new herbicides faster than they can evolve resistance, and they will still work on most species of plants.