MES 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cochliomyia, Housefly, Chlordane
19 Dec 2018
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The most alarming assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials (pg. 6) For time is the essential ingredient; but in the modern world there is no time (pg. 500 new chemicals to which the bodies of men and animals are required somehow to adapt each year, chemicals totally outside the limits of biological experience. (pg. We are told that the enormous and expanding use of pesticides is necessary to maintain farm production. (pg. Real problem overproduction: even if farmers are being paid to not produce as much there is still a staggering amount of food still leftover. Under primitive agricultural conditions the farmer had few insect problems. (pg. Started to show when intensification of agriculture began from a single crop to acres of crops. Yet such a world is pressed upon us. (pg. Want to make a chemically sterile, insect free world .
