Thanks for the comment. It didn’t register with my memory so I’ll keep an eye out for it in the future.
I’m a big bird-watcher.
When I read Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” I was a liberal what fell for it.
Oh my, I sobbed, DDT is making the birds’ eggs too thin. The eggs are crushed by the weight of the mother’s incubating, something that wouldn’t happen because of the DDT.
They even made raptors an endangered species because of the stupid book...eagles, hawks....that kind of thing.
But I was a boo hoo liberal and so in Africa, a country/continent that could not care less about birds for God’s sake, ban DDT.
So the humans begin to all catch malaria and the corrupt dictators in charge find out that all kind of money rolls in to help the malaria victims, which they get to keep most of.
The birds never entered into it and, in fact, it was all a lie.
A much deeper and more nuanced subject than you might think.
Now there’s too many damn raptors....although I love them all.