well, first up, rachel carson had cancer breast cancer. she was writing it. she lost all of hair going through radiation treatments. she was going to be dead soon and was working against the clock to get her writing done when it gets done. january 60. bill douglas says, i'll get the kennedys on board. you. bill douglas was really close. the kennedy family, i can't tell you how close he took. bobby kennedy, the attorney, as a boy, hiking all in siberia to see siberia. they want hiked all over siberia. bobby kennedy, robert kennedy. and i think one up today and the original robert f kennedy and douglas when i was siberian bobby kennedy ethel kennedy told me bobby got high fever, really high like 104 in a middle of the bank of siberia, sweating sick. they were looking for so they couldn't find a penicillin or any kind of medicine or what can help them. and douglas, being a man of darwin, put on his backpack and said, you're sick, bobby. this is where we part company and continued on his like and left bobby to his own fate his own darwinian fate ethel told me she

of these as industrial agriculture took hold in the fifties, sixties, and, really, this is what rachel carson talked about in "silent spring." using all these insecticides was really leading to what she felt was a collapse of biodiversity. we were kilng the undpinning , uh, of t food chain. >> by the 1970s, regulators were rushing to get these organochlorine pesticides off the market because of their persistence in the environment and their possible lk with birth defects, cancers, eggshell thinning in birds, and other problems. >> along in the late eighties and early nineties, really people started to think, well, we need something that is more targeted. we need chemicals that are not so broadly toxic to everything. and that's really where neonicotinoids came from. the idea was that these chemicals, although highly toxic to insects, are less acutely toxic to mammals, they're less acutely toxic to fish. they also thought, what if we can target them inside the plant? if we can target them inside the plant, this is going to be better, because the animals outside the plant are not going to be aff

of these as industrial agriculture took hold in the fifties, sixties, and, really, this is what rachel carson talked about in "silent spring." using all these insecticides was really leading to what she felt was a collapse of biodiversity. we were killi the undernning , uh, of t food chain. >> by the 1970s, regulators were rushing to get these organochlorine pesticides off the market because of their persistence in the environment and their possible lk with birth defects, cancers, eggshell thinning in birds, and other problems. >> along in the late eighties and early nineties, really people started to think, well, we need something that is more targeted. we need chemicals that are not so broadly toxic to everything. and that's really where neonicotinoids came from. the idea was that these chemicals, although highly toxic to insects, are less acutely toxic to mammals, they're less acutely toxic to fish. they also thought, what if we can target them inside the plant? if we can target them inside the plant, this is going to be better, because the animals outside the plant are not going to be aff