<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">On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 8:12 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone</div></div><span class=""><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> <br>Date: 03/19/2016 5:29 PM (GMT-08:00) <br>To: ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> <br></span>Subject: Re: [ExI] bees again <br><br><div dir="ltr"><div 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><span class=""><div 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> </span><div 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 style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div 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><span class=""><div><div 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)">I know this one fact: in Louisiana the brown pelican, the state bird, nearly went into extinction because of DDT.</div></div></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">For an opinion, I think all bugs (meaning bacteria and viruses, eh?) evolve around whatever it is that they encounter - and fast! Maybe even molds. Biologists, where are you? bill w</div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"></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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