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Following World War II, chemical companies and agricultural experts promoted the use of synthetic chemicals as pesticides on weeds and insects. It was, Pete Daniel points out, a convenient way for companies to apply their wartime research to the domestic market. In Toxic Drift, Daniel documents the particularly disastrous effects this campaign had on the South's public health and environment, exposing the careless mentality that allowed pesticide application to swerve out of control. The quest to destroy pests, Daniel contends, unfortunately outran research on insect resistance, ignored environmental damage, and downplayed the dangers of residue accumulation and threats to fish, wildlife, domestic animals, and humans. Using legal sources, archival records, newspapers, and congressional hearings, Daniel constructs a moving, fact-filled account of the use, abuse, and regulation of pesticides from World War II until 1970.

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• Plný název: Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World War II South
• Autor: Pete Daniel
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 209
• EAN: 9780807132456
• ISBN: 0807132454
• ID: 11527943
• Nakladatelství: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Hmotnost: 327 g
• Rozměry: 221 × 149 × 15 mm
• Datum vydání: April 2007

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