Posted on 04/11/2021 7:44:38 AM PDT by deport
It was oversold as the greatest environmental threat of all time. Rachel Carson was a leader in getting it banned, allegedly to save birds of prey, but even the danger to them was never proven.
A few million kids in Africa died from malaria once DDT was banned, but the do-gooders felt they did good.
If you read the entire story, they manage to tie “climate change” into the last paragraph.
In the last paragraph he equates dumping DDT in the ocean with global warming. Right there he lost me.
If the barrels were full of incompressible liquids they would not collapse under water pressure.
The solution to pollution is dilution.
It still is not.
Now it might bother lobsters and crabs as they have an exoskeleton.
But anything with an endoskeleton will not be harmed. Not sure about turtles as they have both.
It’s, it’s it’s like Fukashima and Pearl Harbor and Chernoybl and 9/11 and Yellowstone all rolled into one. OH NOES!!!!!!!!!!
While there are still many unanswered questions, one lesson from this story of DDT contamination is clear: When humans callously pollute the environment it can have consequences for generations to come. One current example is human-caused climate change. The question is, how much of a burden will our children and grandchildren have to bear as result of our choices?
You are right about incompressible liquid. Thanks for pointing that out.
I was thinking they were getting rid of granulated solids with an interstitial air space of maybe 10% or 20%, not liquids.
If it is liquid waste, the barrels might have been filled to maybe 90% or 95% of capacity leaving a small air space about the liquid.
Not much compressible gas in either case, but enough to cause some crushing of the barrels, I suppose.
Perhaps the reason for the dead gray whales around San Francisco?
The deaths are not linked to Global Warming, after all?
The solution to pollution is dilution.
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Well the ocean provide a few gallons for dilution.... LOL
I remember a few decades ago when a damaged ship with diesel fuel on board was purposely sunk in deep water. So deep and cold the diesel would congeal and not leak out.
Tempestuous teapottius
The researcher is searching for grant money
Seems to me they’ll inevitably find crushed barrels with materials that fit your description. Just wanted to offer an explanation for the barrels that looked to be relatively intact.
I grew up in Long Beach at the end of WWII. My parents told me about seeing barge loads of all kinds of war surplus stuff (like jeeps) dumped between L.B. and Catalina. The story was the government didn’t want to reward the car companies for their war effort by dumping low-priced, brand new jeeps on the market, so they dumped them at sea instead. All kinds of stuff got dumped.
As for DDT being an environmental disaster, Rachel Carlson likely was (inadvertently to be sure) responsible for many more deaths than Hitler. Millions of Africans died from malaria each year after DDT was banned. I believe they finally are allowing the use of DDT-treated mosquito netting.
There was a professor in California who ate a pound of DDT to show how harmless it is to humans. Of course he died—thirty years later while mountain climbing in his 80s. But at least the pelicans are OK.
Same for me! 1956 Farmington NM. When the city sprayed for mosquitos along the Animas River.
DDT IS NOT A DANGER, STOP YHE DECADES OF LIES
http://www.eco-imperialism.com/myths-and-facts-about-ddt/
Well, as long as they're only laced, that shouldn't be a source of concern.
"to lace": To mix some substance, typically alcohol or drugs of some kind, into another.
Regards,
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