Adam Curtis Films

Adam Curtis Films

Pandora's Box: Part 4. 'Goodbye Mrs Ant' (1992x4)


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This part, originally broadcast on 2 July 1992, focuses on attitudes to nature and tells the story of the insecticide DDT, which was first seen as a saviour to humankind in the 1940s, only to be claimed as a part of the destruction of the entire ecosystem in the late 1960s. It also outlines how the sciences of entomology and ecology were transformed by political and economic pressures.

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