Rachel Carson was definitely looking for something to blame. I read her book The Sea Around Us when I was a child and liked it. But she got more political and by the time of her death was a complete hero to the left.
She was supposedly the inspiration for Carter’s establishment of the EPA....
Nixon really begun establishment of the EPA if I’m not mistaken, along with OSHA.
BTW: I happen to know of several respected Orthinologists who well recall personally investigating dramatic Pelican and Eagle population decreases due to egg shell thinning caused by extensive use of DDT on Southern California’s west coast.
Also the DDT dumping off Palos Verdes waters caused devastating marine life damage (including birds) all the way out to Catalina Island that took over two decades to recover.
We could be more cautious about eagerly adopting contrarian arguments that support one simplistic point of view, ie: environmentalism is stupid obstructionism, in an effort to expediently make sweeping revision of facts to support ideology.
DDT was and is a problematic pesticide that causes systemic harm across the food chain, just as banned Chloradane was, and Nicototoid based pesticides are now being found to be.
RE: “Rachel Carson was definitely looking for something to blame. I read her book The Sea Around Us when I was a child and liked it. But she got more political and by the time of her death was a complete hero to the left.
She was supposedly the inspiration for Carter’s establishment of the EPA.”