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Pesticides. If they had been used to control the environment of small areas it would have been largely fine. Using pesticides to control the environment of lar
by MildlySerious 6y ago
Pesticides. If they had been used to control the environment of small areas it would have been largely fine.
Using pesticides to control the environment of large swathes of land was bound to cause all sorts of problems, and it did, well beyond the areas they are used on.
- timonoko 6y agoWikipedia: "Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, commonly known as DDT, is a colorless, tasteless, and almost odorless crystalline chemical compound, an organochlorine. Originally developed as an insecticide, it became infamous for its environmental impacts" I actually remember in 1963, we had an invasion of ants. Just regular brown ants common in north European countries. They were everywhere. In beds, in food stores, inside the insulation. And they were also of the biting kind. Traditional solution was to abandon the house for in midwinter and let it freeze up. Just a few buffs from a tiny cardboard box of DDT and they were all gone. Excellent, fuck the environment.