When the Silent Spring thing started, I was glad

When the Silent Spring thing started, I was glad. We were acknowledging long-term consequences from many of our marvelous chemicals, hazards our ancestors hadn't foreseen. Ranchers I knew used DDT wisely, but they would tell about many who were careless.

How to regulate was always the problem. Shocked to discover what at most required tighter regulation & better training would instead be banned from production altogether!

The potential for overregulatory extremism was not as much on my radar once upon a time.

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