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Neonicotinoids are the new DDT killing the natural world
2013-08-05 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It's the new DDT: a class of poisons licensed for widespread use before they had been properly tested, which are now ripping the natural world apart. And it's another demonstration of the old truth that those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it. It is only now, when neonicotinoids are already the world's most widely deployed insecticides, that we are beginning to understand how extensive their impacts are. Just as the manufacturers did for DDT, the corporations which make these...
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