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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone</div></div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: William Flynn Wallace <foozler83@gmail.com> <br>Date: 03/19/2016 5:29 PM (GMT-08:00) <br>To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> <br>Subject: Re: [ExI] bees again <br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">...<br><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">Nobody is stopping other countries, that I know of (did not Google it) from using DDT or anything else that we have banned. I have often wondered why they haven't. And surely there are alternatives to coating seeds other than chemicals that kill bees. </div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">Cut the profits a bit, perhaps, and save the bees...</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">I haven't followed it but there should be plenty of evidence by now to answer whether or not DDT really does harm birds. A charge made in Carson's Silent Spring was that bugs evolve around DDT. Do they? spike</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div></div>
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