The legal actions aimed at controlling DDT changed the world. Scientists with plaintive voices became articulate plaintiffs, powerfully armed with information and experience. Newspapers discovered and wrote about ecology, poisons and the public welfare. The mission of government in protecting the public from such poisons became clear and the road to the enactment in the early 70’s of the revolutionary environmental laws was opened wide. Those laws are now protected and strengthened by powerful conservation-law groups who follow the early model established in the DDT wars that led to the
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