[Hot Tabasco]

“Alaska paid over $100,000 in bounties for 115,000 bald eagles between 1917 and 1942. [Anon. Science News Letter, July 3, 1943]”

That was one of the arguments submitted in the defense against banning DDT, which was accused of being responsible for the decline of not only eagles but all raptors.

” William Ruckelshaus, the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency who made the ultimate decision to ban DDT in 1972, was a member of the Environmental Defense Fund. Ruckelshaus solicited donations for EDF on his personal stationery that read “EDF’s scientists blew the whistle on DDT by showing it to be a cancer hazard, and three years later, when the dust had cleared, EDF had won.”

100 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT DDT:

https://junkscience.com/100-things-you-should-know-about-ddt/#ref1

[Impala64ssa]

Thanks for that junk science.com link! An eyeopener for sure. One thing that sticks out with me is in Chapter 2,

"In the 1960s, World Health Organization authorities believed there was no alternative to the overpopulation problem but to assure than up to 40 percent of the children in poor nations would die of malaria

Sounds like a calling for genocide to me. Shitler also cared about the environment. Coincidence?