The willingness to share information about the toxicity of pesticides has long been compromised by the government’s interest in their economic usefulness. From COVID to climate, today’s crises show the need for a new balance of transparency and profitability.
Tag: Rachel Carson
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.
The Time for Postponing Climate Action Is Over
This is our time to step up to the challenge of our age and to create a future consistent with our reality as living beings born of and nurtured by a living Earth… In 1962, Rachael Carson warned
Source: The Time for Postponing Climate Action Is Over | Common Dreams Views
1848+: The End(s) of History 