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Something happened in 1940
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which marked the beginning
of a new era.
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The era of the ability
to synthesize and create.
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On an unlimited scale
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new chemicals that had
never existed before
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in the world.
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And using the
magic of research
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oil companies compete
with each other
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in taking the petroleum
molecule apart
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and rearranging it into
well you name it...
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So suddenly it became possible
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to produce any new chemical
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synthetic chemicals
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the likes of which had never
existed before in the world
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for any purpose and
at virtually no cost.
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Fabrics toot brushes
tires insecticides
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cosmetics weed killers.
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A whole galaxy of things to
make a better life on earth.
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For instance if you wanted
to go to a chemist and say
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look I want to have
a chemical say a pesticide
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which will persist
throughout the food chain
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and I dont want to have
to renew it very very often
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Id like it to be
relatively non-destructible
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and then hed put two
benzene molecules
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on the blackboard and
add a chlorine here
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and a chlorine there
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that was DDT!
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When the eighth army needed
Jap civilians to help them out
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in our occupation
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they called on native
doctors to administer DDT
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under the supervision
of our men
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to stand a potential
typhus epidemic.
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Dusting like this goes a long
way in checking disease
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and the laughs on them.
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"Pardon our dust"