Chemical Lands by David D. Vail PAPERBACK 9780817362331

Chemical LandsPesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America's Grasslands Since 1945\nAuthor(s): David D. Vail\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Alabama Press\nISBN-13: 9780817362331, 978-0817362331\nSynopsis\nAn exploration of the elaborate relationship between farmers, aerial sprayers, agriculturalists, crop pests, chemicals, and the environment.\n\n The controversies in the 1960s and 1970s that swirled around indiscriminate use of agricultural chemicalstheir long-term ecological harm versus food production benefitswere sparked and clarified by biologist Rachel Carsons Silent Spring [tel]. This seminal publication challenged long-held assumptions concerning the industrial might of American agriculture while sounding an alarm for the damaging persistence of pesticides, especially chlorinated hydrocarbons such as DDT, in the larger environment.\n In Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Healt.