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The Pesticide Conspiracy (Paperback, Revised)
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The Pesticide Conspiracy (Paperback, Revised)
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Professor van den Bosch of the University of California was one of
the developers of Integrated Pest Management - the use of
biological controls, improved pest knowledge and observation, and
judicious application of chemicals only when absolutely necessary.
His research often suggested that less or no pesticides should be
applied, which made him the target of both open and clandestine
attack from industry and government figures. In protest, he wrote
this passionate account of what Ecology called 'the ultimate social
disaster of: evolving pesticide-resistant insects, the destruction
of their natural predators and parasites, emergent populations of
new insect pests, downstream water pollution, atmospheric
pollution, the 'accidental' killing of wildlife and people, and the
bankruptcies of indigenous and small farmers.' As a new
Introduction to this edition recounts, some lessening of dangerous
overreliance on massive pesticide applications has been achieved
since van den Bosch published this book in 1978 - partly as a
result of its influence. But the structural problems he described
remain. This book has thus become a classic, along with Rachel
Carson's "Silent Spring".
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