keccers
@keccers.eth
I learned from the author of the BTC Standard we might have prematurely banned DDT and Silent Spring is specious We clearly do pretty horrible things to the environment. It’s sad one of the biggest environmentalist victories may be based on fabrications as it discredits all future attempts The “right” level of human intervention in the environment is a tough tension to grapple with https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-truth-about-ddt-and-silent-spring
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Joshua Hyde (he/him)
@jrh3k5.eth
"Stopping birds from singing"? It was banned because it was linked to causing a decline in bird populations, due to it causing eggs to be structurally insecure. Even the EPA, as recently as this past February, reaffirmed the linkage to declining bird populations: Now, the question of what to prioritize - human life versus bird populations - is a worthwhile question to answer, but I find the assertion in the tweet to be, at a minimum, misrepresentative.
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0xOmen
@0x-omen.eth
Hey, farmer, farmer, put away your DDT I don't care about spots on my apples Leave me the birds and the bees Please! Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got til it's gone?
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BrixBountyFarm 🎩
@brixbounty
Thx for staring, this article wasn’t on my radar… have any sense of a response being written, since it was published quite awhile back?
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dairy-free ditz
@shes-here
wait, what????? everything i’ve known about DDT has been in relation to birds and pesticide usage, never in the content of malaria and human lives in this way
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𒂭_𒂭
@m-j-r.eth
I'm pretty sure that bioaccumulation of fat-soluble chlorocarbons is a tradeoff worth avoiding.
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Ghost 🎩
@ghostbo4.eth
Ngl Africans been through alot and Malaria’s one of them
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Tobi
@tobystic
https://x.com/tobystic/status/1937030000861204495
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