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And they were Wrong about Cigarettes, Mercury, Coal, and so much else too.....3. But....for specificity, note that today is the anniversary of one of those environmental science lies that is still weighing heavily on the human race, in terms of the cost of human lives.
1962: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was published, and it became one of the most-influential books in the modern environmental movement.
Britannica.com
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4. "Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," which in 1962 exposed the hazards of the pesticide DDT, eloquently questioned humanity's faith in technological progress and helped set the stage for the environmental movement .Silent Spring meticulously described how DDT entered the food chain and accumulated in the fatty tissues of animals, including human beings, and caused cancer and genetic damage. Carson concluded that DDT and other pesticides had irrevocably harmed birds and animals and had contaminated the entire world food supply.
Silent Spring Summary | NRDC
5. On June 14, 1972, ....the EPA banned DDT despite considerable evidence of its safety offered in seven months of agency hearings. After listening to that testimony, the EPA's own administrative law judge declared, "DDT is not a carcinogenic hazard to man...DDT is not a mutagenic or teratogenic hazard to man...The use of DDT under the regulations involved here [does] not have a deleterious effect on freshwater fish, estuarine organisms, wild birds or other wildlife."
Today environmental activists celebrate the EPA's DDT ban as their first great victory.
Silent Spring at 40 - Reason.com
And therein we find, as President Ronald Reagan once observed: “The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.”
Oh Wait!
Thank Science, Not Christianity (esp NOT Literalist Wackos like PoliticalSheik) for all of our Medicines, Chemicals, Seeds and progress in our Standard of Living.
Thank GOVT Regulation/EPA that our Air and Water are cleaner than 50 Years ago.
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