pesticides in society theme
Potential harmful effects of using chemicals or biological agents that are meant to control undesirable plants and animals is featured.
Examples
Environmental concerns prompted some townspeople to seek out alternatives to using cyanide to poison the out-of-control proliferating rabbits in "Night of the Lepus" (1972).
3 total · 2 major · 1 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Kingdom of the Spiders (1977) | major | The use of the had DDT killed off all the spider's food sources and they started attacking livestock and humans as a result. There was also a scene where a man attempted to "crop dust" the spiders from his airplane with a dangerous pesticide. |
| movie: The Swarm (1978) | major | The general was initially intent on spraying large swaths of land with pesticides in order to stop the killer bees, but the scientists eventually convinced him that this action would result in massive ecological collateral damage, and they tried another strategy. |
| movie: Night of the Lepus (1972) | minor | There was much discussion about how using pesticides, like DDT, on the rabbits would poison other animals and have ill-effects on the environment. |