Paul Ehrlich warned in the May 1970 issue of Audubon that DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons “may have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945.” Ehrlich warned that Americans born since 1946…now had a life expectancy of only 49 years, and he predicted that if current patterns continued this expectancy would reach 42 years by 1980 when it might level out. (Note: According to the most recent CDC report, life expectancy in the US is 78.6 years).
I've seen some data linking DDT as the actual cause of polio... so this one might not be that far off.
I remember hearing a lot of these when I was a kid in the 70's. Didn't believe it then either. I blame it on the "useful idiots" and their abuse of lysergic acid diethylamide in the 60's.
You need to see:
18 Spectacularly Wrong Predictions Made Around the Time of the First Earth Day in 1970
I've seen some data linking DDT as the actual cause of polio... so this one might not be that far off.
I remember hearing a lot of these when I was a kid in the 70's. Didn't believe it then either. I blame it on the "useful idiots" and their abuse of lysergic acid diethylamide in the 60's.