A primitive science of insect control has armed itself with modern weapons and turned them against the earth

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• Modern insect control overlooks that the really effective control of insects is the one nature applies, not people RCRachel Carsonc. 1962
• Chemical insect control seems to have assumed that soil could absorb any amount of poison without striking back RCRachel Carsonc. 1962
• The objection is not to all insecticide use but to handing potent poisons indiscriminately to the largely or wholly ignorant RCRachel Carsonc. 1962
• The more a power weaponizes economic choke points against adversaries, the more other powers will defend themselves or retaliate, and that world has come into being. PKPaul Krugman12 Sept 2026
• It would contradict all we know of nature if defenceless early humans had progressed by reckless competition rather than mutual support PKPeter Kropotkinc. 1890–1902

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