Startling Concentrations: DDT was once considered a wonder pesticide, combating malaria and preventing crop failures across the world. Top, a truck sprays DDT in 1945 to eliminate mosquitoes on Jones Beach on Long Island. Bottom, a plane dusts DDT powder on a flock of sheep in Medford, OR, in 1948.

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The massive dumping of barrels with a known toxic, is like a terrorist attack on nature.
In that same period we also dumped nuclear waste into the oceans.