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"This book is a comprehensive examination of pesticide use, pesticide harm, and alternatives to harmful pesticides. Levine highlights the role of farming, because a substantial majority - 70 percent or more annually - of pesticides are applied in agricultural uses, thereby making their way into the food chain and into the water supply."--Jacket.
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Includes information on Rachel Carson, Shell Chemical Corporation, Silent Spring, Agricultural Research Service, DDT, Chlordane, Chlorinated hydrocarbons, crop dusting, Endrin, Environmental Protection Agency, Fire ant control, Food and Drug Administration, Health problems and deathsHeptachlor, Malathion, effect on children, etc.
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"It has been nearly 60 years since the publication of Silent Spring, in which Rachel Carson brought to light evidence of the devastating ecological effects of pesticides. This book, by Frank von Hippel, is a history of these chemicals and our complicated relationship with them. It shows how they've made the modern world possible, while at the same time threatening its essential fabric. 'This book starts with a tragedy that led scientists on an urgent...
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