It’s a narrative that gave Americans a hero for the latter part of the 20th century, a female scientist and writer smart enough and brave enough to take on the

It’s a narrative that gave Americans a hero for the latter part of the 20th century, a female scientist and writer smart enough and brave enough to take on the establishment and win. It’s a story about the power of social movements to remake society for the better. That was an enlightening sentence. I had been asking myself for years just why DDT would be such a touchstone for the conservative/libertarian faction, even though it's so well known that the compound bioaccumulates and becomes concentrated in fatty tissue as it is moved through the food chain. It's not the action of the compound, it's the fear of citizen action!