Agrochemicals - the Silent Killers

The purpose of the attached reports by Rosemary Mason and Palle Uhd Jepsen is to highlight the problems of the current and future use of agrochemical products, using a series of case studies. Have we forgotten Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring from 1962? Many of these chemicals are far more toxic (and persistent) than DDT. They are the silent destroyers of human health and the environment. The persistent and increasing global contamination of water and air with long-acting biocides, particularly formulated glyphosate and the neonicotinoid insecticides, are toxic not only to the poor, but to the rich as well. The consequent depopulation is, therefore, unlikely to be achieved before the sixth mass extinction.

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Rosemary Mason MB, ChB, FRCA and Palle Uhd Jepsen, former Conservation Adviser to the Danish Forest and Nature Agency. Agrochemicals - the Silent Killers (attached)
Mason RA. The sixth mass extinction and chemicals in the environment: our environmental deficit is now beyond nature’s ability to regenerate. Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry 15 (2015) 160–176 (attached)