Defusing the toxics threat: Controlling pesticides and industrial waste

Postel, S. (1987) Defusing the toxics threat: Controlling pesticides and industrial waste. Working Paper. Worldwatch Institute, Washington, USA.

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Abstract

In 1948, Swiss chemist Paul Muller received the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering the insecticidal properties of DDT. By then the insect killer had saved untold lives from malayria, typhus, and other deadly diseases. To many people working during World War II to protect Allied Troops from these insect-borne epidemics, DDT was a miracle chemical. One British entomologist wrote in 1942 that ”the new insecticide appeared to be so exactly what we wanted that it looked too good to be true"...

Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
Author Affiliation: Worldwatch Institute
Subjects: Plant Protection
Divisions: General
Depositing User: Ms K Syamalamba
Date Deposited: 18 Nov 2013 09:36
Last Modified: 18 Nov 2013 09:36
URI: http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/12178

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