Rachel Carson’s Warning on D.D.T. Ignited an Environmental Movement

Rachel Carson’s Warning on D.D.T. Ignited an Environmental Movement | Retro Report

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Author Rachel Carson's strike against the pesticide DDT turned her into an environmental hero, but also a foil for those who believe regulation has gone too far. Now, that fight is more relevant, and complicated, than ever. Educators, check out our environmental collection: bit.ly/RR-Enviro
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@seanfitzgerald3027 7 жыл бұрын

Can't believe more people don't watch these!

@contentedbuddha 7 жыл бұрын

sean fitzgerald Learning from history is overrated, let's get firsthand experience by making all these mistakes again.

@kfilarski 7 жыл бұрын

They used to post one a week but they post them much less frequently now so its hard to keep following the channel.

@RETROREPORT 7 жыл бұрын

Hi Kalvin, we try to release a story every other Monday, but we also have seasons. But probably the best way to keep up to date with us is to get our newsletter: www.retroreport.org/community/get-updates/

@paolomanganello9139 6 жыл бұрын

Retro report: I have never seen such interesting and well done documentaries. Congratulation for your work, they are simply perfect!

@RETROREPORT 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much -- we really appreciate it!

@ch64621 3 жыл бұрын

DDT was sprayed here in the Republic of Vanuatu up into the 90s. I remember as a kid, running into the house when I heard the spray truck coming. After banning it here, malaria and dengue fever cases went up

@opheliaelesse Жыл бұрын

thanx. she is right. great lady!

@kissfan7 4 жыл бұрын

You mean Glenn Beck was being dishonest?! I, for one, am shocked!

@54guy1 2 жыл бұрын

No, he wasn't. He had a valid point at the time.

@acmotifs 7 жыл бұрын

as always, great editing! crazy how kids loved getting fogged with DDT back then. I wonder what will be our generations DDT type mistake..

@johnviera3884 5 жыл бұрын

They still have not proven that DDT causes any health problems. It's been over 50 years.

@mea2429 3 жыл бұрын

@@johnviera3884 "Human health effects from DDT at low environmental doses are unknown. Following exposure to high doses, human symptoms can include vomiting, tremors or shakiness, and seizures. Laboratory animal studies showed effects on the liver and reproduction. DDT is considered a possible human carcinogen." -CDC i think tremors, vomiting, and seizures is enough to suggest that you probably shouldnt run through it like its a sprinkler

@johnviera3884 3 жыл бұрын

maria.elena now look up Malaria

@mea2429 3 жыл бұрын

John Viera did you miss the part of the video where it said DDT doesn’t fix the problem of insect-spread disease and only exacerbates it?

@Anna-dy6gc 3 жыл бұрын

@@mea2429 DDT almost eradicated malaria, especially in soilders, but i believe its overuse is what caused its ineffectiveness. Scientists had a series of huts and sprayed one one the walls, the mosquitos did not come near it. This was very recent too. By mass spraying it over people, crops etc (probably due to greedy false advertising of its safety) they are giving the mosquitos a chance to become immune. It still gets rid of the disease but not as effective now.

@bgoatboy 3 жыл бұрын

Great work!

@debrawehrly9551 4 жыл бұрын

Thank goodness for Rachel Carson!

@wyattwatterud3099 5 жыл бұрын

So where do you guys get funding? Obviously not from ads

@jimsac2000 3 жыл бұрын

Your documentaries are excellent. I use them for my freshman class!

@RETROREPORT 3 жыл бұрын

THANKS! What subject do you teach? Did you know that we have started a new education initiative that offers free lesson plans for many of our stories?

@jimsac2000 3 жыл бұрын

@@RETROREPORT No I did not know about this initiative. I teach a first year class called 'A Small Dose of Toxicology' which deals with the impact of poisons on history and society. It is aimed for both science and non-science majors.

@RETROREPORT 3 жыл бұрын

@@jimsac2000 That sounds like a fascinating class. Just based off of the description, would these Lesson Plans work? www.retroreport.org/education/video/love-canal-and-the-environmental-protection-agency/ www.retroreport.org/education/video/influencing-public-policy-the-story-of-thalidomide/ www.retroreport.org/education/video/vietnam-war-agent-orange/

@RETROREPORT 3 жыл бұрын

We also have a couple more stories that could work, but they don't have lesson plans yet: Lead Paint and the after effects of the Tylenol murders: www.retroreport.org/video/a-trusted-pill-turned-deadly-here-s-how-tylenol-made-a-comeback/ www.retroreport.org/video/lingering-peril-from-paint/

@jimsac2000 3 жыл бұрын

@@RETROREPORT Hello there! I have used the Tylenol murders report in class. It is of particular interest to my students as some of them go on to pharmacy school.

@jamifrig 5 жыл бұрын

rachel carson is a hero. she has a massive dedicated bird & other wildlife refuge here in southern maine. it’s a beautiful place! please go see it if you’re ever here 💚

@tomkeane1331 5 жыл бұрын

jami lyn she literally killed millions of people with the banning of ddt I wouldn’t say she’s a hero lmao

@tedphillips3119 4 жыл бұрын

@Muneer Khan That actually isn't true at all. By banning DDT in the western world DDT greatly increased in price which forced African countries to use alternative pesticides that were not nearly as effective. The study that proposed that the mosquitos had developed an immunity to DDT appeared in ACS Publication's Journal of Organic Chemistry Volume 64, Issue 12, p.16-67; and has since been widely discredited and was eventually retracted. Also if a farmer wants to import their produce into a western nation, they cannot use DDT due to the regulations. This documentary is incredibly misleading and an obvious piece of propaganda by zealous environmentalists.

@eopedrozaable 3 жыл бұрын

I have a better solution is spend the money that they spent on science on good roads and homes and education witch is what the government is ment to do and all the donation for many years but seams that little change has been done

@dorutimofte8391 4 ай бұрын

Because it's nothing done and all that money mostly is going in the elite pockets. Did you ever saw with your own eyes... People are easy to being deceived

@violetlavender9504 7 жыл бұрын

If one species could go extinct, I would choose Aedes Aegypti

@rumblefish9 5 жыл бұрын

As someone who's had dengue hemorrhagic fever , I agree.

@vijaykumarmane7090 5 жыл бұрын

I would choose "HUMANS", this planet is more beautiful without us !

@mensch1066 5 жыл бұрын

@@vijaykumarmane7090 This anti-human view from humans is baffling to me. If you ACTUALLY believed this (which I don't believe) you would have killed yourself already, as that is the only logical result of such thinking. People who hold this opinion though, seem to me to just be elitist pricks. They don't really want all humans dead, and certainly not themselves. They want all those icky humans over there or there to be dead. It's a view that most people are disagreeable "unwashed masses", and it comes from the same place as eugenics and Ehrlich's "Population Bomb" crap.

@vijaykumarmane7090 5 жыл бұрын

@@mensch1066hi, Nature decides which species will live n which die...all species finds equilibrium with nature except us. We think we are superior to all, may be We are but we disturb the equilibrium. We aren't at the top of any pyramid of life but we are in a circle of species where our actions affect everyone including us. When I look cities in google map...it looks like some cell organism, roads be like veins, cars like red blood cells and we tiny people transporting from one place to another like oxygen in our body. Few cells look healthy and alot look cancerous spreading allover the planet.

@Dale30 5 жыл бұрын

@@vijaykumarmane7090 you first.

@shubhamsingh-oq8me 5 жыл бұрын

Nyc vedio

@debravictoria7452 Жыл бұрын

Probiotics seems like a good idea. If that works for mosquitoes, would it help protect humans?

@augustxiii2580 4 жыл бұрын

Rain.

@augustxiii2580 4 жыл бұрын

ISOM PARK. AN ENVIRONMENTAL INCOME MOVEMENT.

@brandondavidson4085 4 жыл бұрын

Remember when people used to read?

@noastromer9427 4 жыл бұрын

@publicpitchblendeorg 6 жыл бұрын

Too bad 4 humans

@bimalchandradas3360 3 жыл бұрын

Kallika praised lokageeti

@mijaba 4 жыл бұрын

why do you not interview any critics of Carson? you seem to interview only those who are anti-DDT. It "looks" biased.

@augustxiii2580 4 жыл бұрын

Richmon.

@parthisMC 4 жыл бұрын

Can someone list 10 ways Rachel Carson’s silent spring influenced the environmental movement in the United States with the use of the pesticide ddt and the regulations that layer followed in future decades

@neoxyte Жыл бұрын

Do your own homework

@parthisMC Жыл бұрын

@@neoxyte damn mb my guy, I'll just submit the assignment nearly 3 years late 😬

@augustxiii2580 4 жыл бұрын

Ran.

@baroonono 4 жыл бұрын

wow am

@davidjoost 4 жыл бұрын

Carsonogenic

@bolpeensamp 6 жыл бұрын

But ofcourse it had to be Fox news.

@modernwar2ghostrp 5 жыл бұрын

They're not inaccurate. DDT was a first world development that helped the third world. They weren't saying it wasn't bad in most cases but the side effects did kill people. By banning DDT development they banned the further process of ensuring it works (like the pesticides used for us crops that change often) and it led to the chemical becoming in effective. The John stossel clip they play I bad because he agrees it wasn't as harmless as we thought but an outright ban killed. And he's right.

@modernwar2ghostrp 5 жыл бұрын

In fact he even covers how the development in first world countries of technology like this has led to breakthroughs like breading and releasing mosquitos that are immune to the chemicals they use, but do not have the genes to carry malaria.

@br33ta 7 жыл бұрын

second

@augustxiii2580 4 жыл бұрын

Zahir.. outgrew.. with

@johnviera3884 5 жыл бұрын

"we need a better solution. Something more technological. Not just an insecticide." See, I'm a genius just like Mrs. Carson

@BLUEGENE13 2 жыл бұрын

Did she have any serious data showing it was a problem?

@thelistofkrix665 4 ай бұрын

Yes.

@Marshallgill 29 күн бұрын

No. To this day there isn't data showing DDT as being harmful to humans, or bird eggs!

@bc913 8 ай бұрын

DDT saved so many lives

@Marshallgill 29 күн бұрын

One of the greatest chemicals ever invented by mankind.

@thearkhamknight8989 7 жыл бұрын

FIRST!

@xMADCx 7 жыл бұрын

They quit the DDT before total anihilation of the mosquito, that made them evolve and now kill millions.

@theonlydkdreng 5 жыл бұрын

Not how evolution works :) They tried to kill them all but say that one mosquito in a group of 10.000 survives a DDT spraying. That one has an increased chance to reproduce and it survived the spraying because it has some sort of mechanism that makes it resistant if not immune to DDT. This is the same issue that plauges multi-resistant-bacteria: we kill as many as we can of them with some sort of drug (say penicillin) , but a few survive, and those that survive have some sort of defense from our drugs, which they will pass down to their off-spring

@TheOnePhillip 4 жыл бұрын

I quote john stossel"NONE OF THE THINGS THIS WOMAN PREDICTED IN HER BOOK CAME TRUE" like mass cancers worldwide for one.

@chistinelane Жыл бұрын

Because we stopped using it, dummy

@Marshallgill 29 күн бұрын

No, but millions have died from malaria! And the Left cheers!

@RoseTorn411 3 жыл бұрын

Some how I feel he was talking about human over population @ 4:32

@augustxiii2580 4 жыл бұрын

Avril. Oxon. Onion. Zest. O2 Curfew non Sec'y l

@augustxiii2580 4 жыл бұрын

Fema coffins. Zzz a roku coa c4

@alechacon1126 5 жыл бұрын

I have to get vaccinated against yellow fever cause I’m in Panama.

@dontsubscribeme9547 4 жыл бұрын

Because of overpopulation in third world.. Everyone on this planet should suffer? 😂😂😂😂

@-iIIiiiiiIiiiiIIIiiIi- Жыл бұрын

Wait, so humans will eventually be immune to DDT?! Fuck yeah!

@cristerowarrior1450 5 жыл бұрын

DDT didn’t kill birds it just made bird shells thinner

@BroThinkHe-Carti 4 жыл бұрын

DDT was first found to affect birds such as the American Bald Eagle, the brown pelican, and the Peregrine falcon and the osprey by thinning and weakening their eggshells, causing premature embryo death, and reducing their populations.

@Marshallgill 29 күн бұрын

Nah, it didn't even do that. She had no real science behind her claims and that remains true today. All BS. The banning of DDT was about reducing populations, human ones, have no doubt.

@augustxiii2580 4 жыл бұрын

Rain.