This week on HFTF, historian David Kinkela discusses his brand new book, DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide that Changed the World. Kinkela, who teaches at the State University of New York-Fredonia, traces the history of the controversial pesticide DDT, starting with its early deployment during World War II as Allied troops sought to halt the spread of disease carrying insects in war torn Europe. Increasingly used as a “miracle” agricultural pesticide and malaria deterrent, DDT became famous – or infamous – in Rachel Carson’s 1962 classic, Silent Spring. On the show, Kinkela discusses the ecological and political reasons for DDT’s eventual removal from the domestic market, and much more. Give it a listen!
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