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The environmental impact of widespread DDT use is pretty devastating. http://www.rachelcarson.org/SilentSpring.aspx http://www.rachelcarson.org/SilentSpring.as

• User23 6y ago
  Silent Spring isn’t a scientific work[1] and has some serious factual problems. If you want to support banning DDT in an evidence based way you need to look elsewhere. It is on the other hand observably a rhetorical masterwork. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/05/health/05iht-sntier.1.6003787.html https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/05/health/05iht-sntier.1.600...
  • jfk13 6y ago
    It wasn't written to be simply and solely a scientific work; and it's hardly surprising that over the intervening 60 years, things haven't followed exactly all the scenarios it suggested. That doesn't alter the fact that it was a seminal work that helped open many people's eyes to some very real issues; and the devastation of many ecosystems over the past half-century or more surely confirms the importance of its message.
    • lazide 6y ago
      If you ignore the reality of a situation in favor of rhetorical tricks to land a heavier impact - it still doesn’t make it actually true. Even if the heavier impact has some positives.
• warrenm 5y ago
  I had forgotten about that piece of tripe until you mentioned it