SOCECOL E8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pesticide, Trade Winds, Colony Collapse Disorder
23 Mar 2016
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Midterm study guide is at bottom of objective one. Only civil action question is did the truth come out at the trial and compare with skinner"s opinion (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Out of 150 industrial chemicals, they had 84; 6 years ago would have been only 1 and that is lead. The body does not metabolize synthetic chemicals; they stay in fat and blood (more risk for women of child-bearing age) They are toxic enough but don"t know about risks; chemical industry could adopt over exposure dramatically by its own actions. Why is it so hard to establish causation: it is an interaction; it is absolutely the way life is working. 40-50% insects are lost to colony collapse disorder. Pesticide comes up and it"s probably guilty. A quarter of americas crops come from the bees pollination. Three different environments + 2 other environments: agriculture, natural ecosystems, urban landscape.
