REN R260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Lynn Townsend White Jr., Progress Trap, Atmospheric Chemistry
21 Sep 2016
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A lot of countries banned it (fear for human health) Ddt was very e ective in reducing the incidence of malaria. Complicated issue, there is some truth to what he"s saying (insects can wipe out crops & forests etc. ) We"ve increased crop production, we still use pesticides they"re just not ddt (they still grow more food for us) Once you spray poison it leads to a progress trap. You wipe out everything, then you have a bigger problem and probably have to use more poison etc. Buddha is reacting against urbanization, deforestation, commercialization. Forest was turning into all this farmland makes him mad. We know that these ideas about thinking about the ecology around us is not something new to human beings, it"s been around for a long time. Goethe is reacting against pre-industrial collection of statements. Living in an area where there are little states w/in. Mechanical means to replace human and animal based labor.
