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During the time that Silent Spring was written and published DDT was one of the most widely used pesticides in the world. But the origins of DDT went back to the last quarter of the 19th century, when it was first synthesized by a German chemist in 1874. It wasn’t until just before the Second World War 65 years later that its true potential as an extremely effective pesticide was realized. In Silent Spring, Rachel Carson cleverly writes about the almost casual way DDT was used as an Read more