Said water pollution has been well documented even as early as in the 
1960’s, but where is this ground water, a chemcial time-bomb sitting in 
the aquafer, such as Waldemar describes, gonna go?

“Although the sudden death of thousands of fish or crustaceans in some 
stream or pond as the direct and visible effect of insect control is 
dramatic and alarming, these unseen and as yet largely unknown and 
unmeasureable effects of pesticides reaching estuaries indrectly in 
streams and rivers may in the end be more disastrous. . . . We know that 
pesticies contained in runoff from farms and forests are now being carried 
to the sea in the waters of many and perhaps all of the major rivers.  But 
we do not know the identity of all the chemicals or their total quantity, 
and we do not presently have any dependable tests for identifying them in 
highly diluted state once they have reached the sea.  Although we know 
that the chemicals have almost certanly undergone change during the long 
period of transit, we do not know whether the altered chemical is more 
toxic than the original or less”  (Silent Spring;151-2).

“The whole process of sprayinhg seems caught up in an endless spiral.  
Since DDT [We have sprayed stuff far far far worse than DDT now] was 
released for civilian use, a process of escalation has been going on in 
which ever more toxic materials must be found.  This has happened because 
insects, in a triumphant vindication of Darwin’s principle of the 
survivial of the fisttest, have evloved super races imune to the 
particular insecticide used, hence, a deadlier one has always to be 
developed—and then a deadlier one tha that . . . because destructive 
insects often under go a ‘flareback,’ or resurgence, after spraying, in 
numbers greater than before.  Thus chemcial war is never won, and all life 
is caught in its violent crossfire.”  (Silent Spring; 8)

“Violent Crossfire,” such as being unable to concevie a young; although 
our intended target was a “bug,” the intricate web of life must also deal 
with the consequences of a few industrial farmers who too must bring bread 
to the table no matter what. The bullet, alas, boomeranged and backfired 
at us, the humans, the control freak.  Let's not talk about the incrased 
risks of cancer here.

The Dutch Elm disease was the direct result of planting one species 
(monocrop) all over the US, on the streets, on the campuses, and in the 
backyard, offering an endless buffet for the fungus to explode, riding on 
the back of elm bark beetles—all, thanks to us.

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