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Maybe you know more about this than me, but last I had heard, it was the use of agricultural DDT that was most condemned, whereas DDT for epidemic control was s
by DaniFong 18y ago
Maybe you know more about this than me, but last I had heard, it was the use of agricultural DDT that was most condemned, whereas DDT for epidemic control was supported by, for example, WHO. The idea was that, after some years, agricultural DDT caused DDT resistance in mosquito populations. This rendered DDT for epidemic control ineffective.
Of course, the whole argument is complicated by the fact that pesticides are needed, in current practice for high-yield rice at the green-revolution scale, without which millions would starve.
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