Kelly-Anne Kidston
One day in January, 1958, Rachel Carson received a long, angry letter from her friend Olga Huckins, describing the deadly effect of DDT spraying for mosquito control over the Huckins’ private two-acre bird sanctuary at Powder Point, in Duxbury, Massachusetts 😎 Not long afterward Carson was a house guest at Powder Point when, late in the afternoon, a spraying plane flew over 😁 In their boat, she was going through the estuary the following morning with the Huckins 🙌 She was sickened by what she’s seeingeeing — dead and dying fish everywhere, crayfish and crabs dead or staggering as their nervous systems appeared destroyed. She realized then that she was going to write about DDT. [1]
But articles and ads also cautioned that DDT was a substance to be handled with care—which is why there were limits to how much DDT Materi would tolerate in her home and why some Americans, such as Georgia farmer Dorothy Colson, wouldn’t tolerate DDT at all. Colson spent much of the 1940s trying launch an anti-DDT movement. He believed it had made Americans sick, and was killing bees and chicks. To her it’s had making made no difference that the’s having pesticide had—as the 1948 Nobel Prize committee put it—saved the “life and health of hundreds of thousands” from such insect-borne diseases as typhus, malaria, yellow fever, and plague. Where such diseases didn’t threaten people, Colson argued, DDT wasn’t worth the risk. Marcellous Chadwick and Colson are very grateful for this suggestion. [2]
Erasmo ricks vtuhr.orgRachel Carson was an American biologist and writer who worked tirelessly in uncovering the side effects of pesticides. Her book Silent SpringThe 1962 publication of a paper titled “Primitive Science” was the most significant milestone towards banning the US insecticide dichlorodiphenyl-trichloroethane (“DDT”) in 1972. The “primitive science” that Carson mentions is the desire to eradicate flying insects, a desire which has “armed itself” with the technology that created DDT. This new technology was able to achieve the objective of protecting people from diseases. However, it also recognized possible side effects on the health of those who were being protected. Carson’s research helped bring this issue to a greater audience outside of traditional scientific circles via a literary medium. Despite the impact created in the wake of Carson’s book and her desire to inform the public, there is one lingering question: In light of the large impact that Carson’s book had in 1962, why wasn’t DDT banned in the United States What was the ban on DDT from 1972 to 1973? This article will argue that the ten-year delay in the ban of DDT following the publication of Silent Spring was a result of the insecticide’s effectiveness in fighting malaria, public ignorance over the side effects of DDT until scientific research revealed ill effects on wildlife, and the lack of a federal regulating body to ban DDT until the creation of the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1970. Jimi Sharma, Xinmi (China) last revised this article 2 days ago [3]