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Name? AFAIK those things didn't have names. The 70s and 80s were filled with huge insect plagues on Asia, Africa and South America that disrupted the agriculture of several countries.


> The 70s and 80s were filled with huge insect plagues on Asia, Africa and South America that disrupted the agriculture of several countries.

And had nothing to do with DDT. If you’re thinking there was widespread ecological harm from pesticides, we didn’t stop using pesticides people swapped to different pesticides.


And yet, they mostly stopped happening since DDT and a few other pesticides stopped being used.


It stopped happening because pesticide use increased. https://ourworldindata.org/pesticides

Alongside global transportation networks that can efficiently make up for local issues.




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