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Tag: DDT
The Toxic and Insidious Legacy and Crime of DDT Dumping in Southern California
Corroded barrel of DDT waste 3,000 feet deep in the waters not far from the Los Angeles harbor. There are thousands of barrels of DDT waste spread widely
Source: The Toxic and Insidious Legacy and Crime of DDT Dumping in Southern California – CounterPunch.org
The DDT Octopus –
Agriculture borrowed the Pentagon’s chemical warfare strategy for American farmers. The missionaries of agricultural industrialization adopted and spread the profitable new approach to chemical danger — what Morton Biskind aptly called “a new principle of toxicology” — that still reigns supreme among the practitioners of conventional science and politics in the twenty-first century. Like a gigantic octopus, the chemical industry put its tentacles all over Congress, the White House and land grant universities.
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Ecocide in the Pacific
In late 2020 by David Valentine, a curious professor of the University of California, Santa Barbara, discovered something like 500,000 barrels of DDT littering the ocean floor: a criminal act of pollution that turned out to be the “most infamous case of environmental destruction off the coast of Lost Angeles.” The dumping started in 1947 and continued until 1982, twelve years after the founding of the EPA in 1970. The dumping of DDT was near the Catalina Island. It could not have taken place without the tacit agreement of California and national governments. More
Source: Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Ecocide in the Pacific – CounterPunch.org
A Just and Talented Government for Our Hazardous Age
In 1979, I joined the US Environmental Protection Agency where I served as an analyst until 2004. Those twenty-five years gave me a privileged opportunity to observe the workings of the government from within. I applauded EPA for banning DDT in 1972, about two years after President Richard Nixon brought the EPA into being. DDT More
Source: A Just and Talented Government for Our Hazardous Age – CounterPunch.org
1848+: The End(s) of History 