Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature by Lear Linda

Author:Lear, Linda [Lear, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2009-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

The poisons dieldrin and heptachlor are recognized, beyond possibility of denial, as extremely toxic even in minute traces. Both are absorbed through the skin as well as through other portals. Both are stored in the human body. Both are toxic to the human nervous system and to the liver, and almost certainly interfere with many of the basic processes of the body. The most dangerous effect is not . . . acute toxicity, but cumulative poisoning. This may not be revealed in its full and possibly disastrous impact for a number of years. The threat of the fire ant is insignificant compared with the serious and long-lasting damage inflicted by your efforts to control it.15

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