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Drastic harm may mean something different to you, but numbers aren’t subjective. Why do you think DDT killed millions of people?
by Retric 3y ago
Drastic harm may mean something different to you, but numbers aren’t subjective.
Why do you think DDT killed millions of people?
- marcosdumay 3y agoTake a look at famines due to ecosystems breakdown in the 20th century.
- clarionbell 3y agoName 3. It should be easy.
- marcosdumay 3y agoName? AFAIK those things didn't have names. The 70s and 80s were filled with huge insect plagues on Asia, Africa and South America that disrupted the agriculture of several countries.
- Retric 3y ago> The 70s and 80s were filled with huge insect plagues on Asia, Africa and South America that disrupted the agriculture of several countries. And had nothing to do with DDT. If you’re thinking there was widespread ecological harm from pesticides, we didn’t stop using pesticides people swapped to different pesticides.
- marcosdumay 3y agoAnd yet, they mostly stopped happening since DDT and a few other pesticides stopped being used.
- Retric 3y agoIt stopped happening because pesticide use increased. https://ourworldindata.org/pesticides https://ourworldindata.org/pesticides Alongside global transportation networks that can efficiently make up for local issues.