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2026-07-06 01:22 UTC
🦖#MONSTERDON 🎞️
⁉️ LEGGY TRIVIA 🌏🕷️
They prepare to spray DDT all over the cave, as was the custom through the 1950s. In 1962, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, documenting for the general public the environmental harm caused by the indiscriminate use of DDT.
It was often sprayed via plane over large areas, even with people.
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@JoeWynne@mstdn.plus 2026-07-06 01:25
🦖MONSTERDON 🎞️ ⁉️ LEGGY TRIVIA 🌏🕷️ Not as well known, though, is that in Carson's book, she accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation that the pesticide was safe and public officials of accepting those claims. Would never happen today. Part 2 of 3 #Monsterdon