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Fabrics toot brushes
tires insecticides
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cosmetics weed killers.
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A whole galaxy of things to
make a better life on earth.
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For instance if you wanted
to go to a chemist and say
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look I want to have
a chemical say a pesticide
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which will persist
throughout the food chain
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and I dont want to have
to renew it very very often
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Id like it to be
relatively non-destructible
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and then hed put two
benzene molecules
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on the blackboard and
add a chlorine here
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and a chlorine there
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that was DDT!
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When the eighth army needed
Jap civilians to help them out
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in our occupation
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they called on native
doctors to administer DDT
:26:44
under the supervision
of our men
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to stand a potential
typhus epidemic.
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Dusting like this goes a long
way in checking disease
:26:51
and the laughs on them.
:26:55
"Pardon our dust"
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As the petrochemical
era grew and grew
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warning signs emerged that
some of these chemicals
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could pose hazards.
:27:19
The data initially were
trivial anecdotal
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but gradually a body of data
started accumulating
:27:29
to the extent that we now know
that the synthetic chemicals
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which have permeated
our workplace
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our consumer products
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our air our water
:27:41
produced cancer
and also birth defects
:27:44
and some other
toxic effects.