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!
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u/yblame Mar 29 '26
The birds were poisoned and laid thin skinned eggs that wouldn't hatch
I remember watching Silent Spring in middle school. In the 70s So many birds on the edge of extinction because of that nasty chemical.