From csas001@unlvm.unl.eduFri Apr 5 20:05:13 1996 Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 11:24:52 -0500 (EST) From: Pam Murray To: sanet-mg@amani.ces.ncsu.edu Subject: Correction in CSAS Newsletter The quote from Donella Meadows' Essay on pesticides in the March-April CSAS Newsletter transposed two numbers. Instead of $1.4 billion spent a year on pesticides, it should have been $4.1 billion. Since I'm unsure of the date of the actual essay (it was in a book of a collection of her essays with a copyright of 1991), I deleted that last sentence from the hard copy of our newsletter before it went to press. The following is what appears in the hard copy. *********************** WHERE HAVE ALL THE PESTICIDES GONE Peter, Paul and Mary probably don't know, but Donella H. Meadows tells us in her essay, "Where Do All the Pesticides Go?": "Every year American farmers apply 1.3 million tons of pesticides to their fields. When pesticides are sprayed by airplane--and sixty-five percent of them are--less than half the chemical hits the target field. The rest disintegrates in the air or falls somewhere else. Of the pesticide that does reach the field, far less than one percent makes contact with a harmful insect or weed." Primary Source: The Global Citizen, Island Press, c1991. Secondary Source: Personal communication with Bill Duesing-- organic farmer, author, educator and artist (http://www.wshu.org/duesing/) **************************** Pam Murray, Coordinator Center for Grassland Studies and Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems PO Box 830949 University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE 68583-0949 phone: 402-472-9383 fax: 402-472-4104 e-mail: csas001@unlvm.unl.edu