Tumbleweed wrote:
[...]
you'll find people drinking coffee and smoking*, campaigning about
the minute and largely theoretical effect that a man-made pesticide
might have. Oliver Goldsmith, who edits 'The Ecologist', would be a
good case in point.

The one about smoking has always tickled me, I must admit! But as an
Australian of a certain age, my world view is coloured with Agent
Orange (no, I wasn't exposed -- I was lucky enough to miss 'Nam).

--
Mike.