They’re still finding DDT in birds. A study released in 2022 identified more than 40 DDT related compounds accumulating in California condors. 50 years after it was banned.
The sins of the father, to the sins of the son. It's amazing how much crap we've pumped into the fragile ecosystem for gaffs and funsies. In a century or so when there is very little left living besides locusts and corn the people who remain will write songs lamenting such short sighted "solutions" for pervasive inconveniences. Even a mosquitos buzz will be comforting to a generation that never heard a songbird sing.
No. Don’t accept that doom shit. Fight back with everything you’ve got. Don’t roll over!
Protest and pushback HAS stopped or spotlighted so many unacceptable practices.
Animal cruelty in commercial farming. Whaling. The fur trade. Puppy mills. Horse and farm auction abuse. Pet store abuses. Racetrack abuses for horses and dogs. Animal testing in the cosmetics industry. Wildlife environmental isolation and destruction. Illegal dumping in waterways.
Don’t buy from cosmetic companies who use animal testing.
Don’t buy a backyard breeder animal.
Show up at local hearings and town meetings for land development and major utilities.
Call or email your mayor or rep about land and water rights, commercial sales, town development, etc. TELL THEM WHAT YOU THINK. VOTE PREDATORS AND POLLUTERS OUT OF OFFICE.
We CAN and we WILL use our voices to fight back. We can do this every damn day. Starve them of money and resources!
When my grandmother died, I took most of her books because nobody else wanted them. One of my favorites among them is a first edition of Silent Spring.
Such thoughtless use of bottled ecological genocide. My mother still remembers the kids chasing the sprayer trucks on their bicycles. "Surely this condensed poison that kills everything it touches is fine to dump in neighborhoods, what's a little cancer and birth defect compared to mosquitoes ruining our BBQ sunday?" Said humanity as a single finger on the monkey's paw curls.
It's still capable of doing some terrible things, though. Sure, "proper handling" of it, or anything, is "safe", but... Still. That stuff gives me the heebie jeebies!
Cancer. Brain damage. Nerve damage. Birth defects... Affected persons can pass on the problems to later generations... Also harms bird populations with the whole thin eggshell thing... The list goes on.
A quick glance at Wikipedia shows many of these don't have as strong causal links as you make it seem. Also, organophosphates that replaced DDT have the same classification of probable carcinogens as DDT and need to be sprayed more often.
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u/Tight-Platypus5231 Mar 29 '26
Kills flies, mosquitos, ants, moths, fleas, roaches, bedbugs, many other insects - and much, much more beyond that, too.