I remember playing in clouds of pesticides —sprayed to kill mosquitoes in about 1964. Birth control pills became available in 1960.
Yeah, the DDT sprayer truck (we called it the fogging machine) used to come down our alley in Naples every month or so. VERY exciting, and the smell was divinely toxic.
it occurs to me that a smaller population might not have required quite so much DDT.
greed has also increased and the desire on the part of white men to return the world to the 1960’s they prefer, when women and minorities knew their place. And nobody gave a fuck about wildlife.
I gave a fuck about wildlife, minorities, women AND greed from a very early age. I recall trying, to no avail, at age 5 to express my concern.
Now the mechanisms that foster greed and the suppression of minorities and women are more sophisticated and less overt, but almost just as widespread and powerful. Greed looks more prevalent today than it did in the 1960s due partly to the great increase in potential victims of it, and partly due to social structures designe for and by the rich. But as a basic human trait I don’t think it has changed.