Oh for the fabulously optimistic fifties, when nuclear power was going to make electricity "too cheap to meter", our houses were going to be made of plastic and we could look forward to Better living through Chemistry. Oh, and DDT was so wonderful that you could buy wallpaper impregnated with it for your kid's bedroom. With Donald Duck and Pluto on it! What could possibly go wrong? Besides, we know better now than to expose our kids to huge amounts of synthetic bug-killers. Who would put DDT in wallpaper or Triclosan in toothpaste today?or promote GMO foods...or eat fast food....
Many things haven't changed that much - just different "sins."
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