1874 As Othmar Zeidler's Graduate Essay

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Because DDT is still widely used in much of the developing world, its effects remain extant even though the United States and other nations have prohibited the manufacturing of the chemical.

On December 31, 1972, the Environmental Protection Agency instated a ban on the substance. With DDT illegal in the United States, its use remains restricted to a number of developing nations and also to many modern nations like South Africa (Grener nd). DDT is still manufactured and used in agriculture worldwide even though the chemical is banned in the United States. In fact, DDT is manufactured in many countries including Mexico and is imported by a host of large and largely populated nations like India, the Philippines, and Venezuela (DDT).
Crops that are imported to the United States from those countries may have been grown on DDT-tainted fields, and so DDT is indirectly still circulating through the blood streams of many Americans.

The overall impact of DDT has been negative. The chemical has adversely affected the business of agriculture and has increased dependence on chemical pesticides in general. Pest have become resistant to DDT, which is one of the reasons why farmers and scientists because suspicious of the substance. Yet the most significant adverse effect of DDT on twentieth century human society is on public health and safety......

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