DDT and the American Century¶
Kinkela. (2011). DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World. North Carolina Press.
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- Kranzberg's first law
- DDT applied to US agriculture in the 1950s increased crop yields; DDT diffusing through aquatic food chains in the 1960s suppressed raptor reproduction; DDT used for indoor residual spraying against malaria vectors in sub-Saharan Africa in the 2000s saved lives at low cost
This sourceA history of DDT covering its use on US crops, its movement through the food chain and the bird declines blamed on it, and its later role against malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. That Paul Müller, inventor of the compound DDT, won the 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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“one of the leading causes of childhood deaths in [Africa] and other malaria-endemic regions. Not to be deterred”
- DDT applied to US agriculture in the 1950s increased crop yields; DDT diffusing through aquatic food chains in the 1960s suppressed raptor reproduction; DDT used for indoor residual spraying against malaria vectors in sub-Saharan Africa in the 2000s saved lives at low cost
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