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The disaster has been b.p. and the two initials are the d.d.t. of our area. when you think back to 1962 and "silent spring" a whole country woke up to what pesticides do to the environment. what that's what this spill is doing to the gulf. people are going to have to wake up anew. we're going to be looking at all the shoddy kinds of laws and tricks that big oil has played in the gulf of mexico. and b.p. has taken a hit for everybody now. but it's their third environmental disaster in the united states in the last five years. they had one in texas city in '05, they had one in the north slope of...

>> it will break up naturally the same as in alaska. we'll probably wait 40 or 50 years before it breaks up naturally. and what we'll see in louisiana with little bit warmer temperature, maybe a little more rapid degradation. maybe a little bit less than 50 year, but who knows how much less. >> so leaving nature to take its course clearly doesn't make any sense. and b.p., as we were talking about was trying to get volunteers to sign this waiver. and now they're basically disavowing any knowledge of the waiver saying it was just a misstep. clearly this was written by attorneys spefrkically for ...

Breathe. we would find household chemicals that you clean your sink and countertop with. chemicals in your television, in your telephones. we would find chemicals that are in the food that you eat. testing in some cases, umbilical cord blood. we found over 200 toxic chemicals in just ten samples. some banned years before but still exist. ddt breakdown products. >> you have an 18-month-old. >> very active guy. >> and you an your wife -- based on everything you know what do you do differently? >> when my wife was pregnant we spent a lot of times on websites including my own trying to figure out ...

Are located. oftentimes very little government vigilance. oftentime it is state and local authorities side with the industry more often than with the people expoedsed. the concerns of the community often aren't heard. and the truth of the matter is that all of us in effect live on a fence line. when you think about exposures through consumer products, food, water, air because these chemicals know no boundaries, they certainly don't stop at the fence line. we are fall effect being exposed at various levels to various combinations of these chemic chemicalings every day. >> reporter: so people wi...

Ron just said. continue, steve. >> as if on cue, i got a direct message on twitter and i saved it. somebody said, will you go to this link and donate to save -- to buy nets to fight malaria in africa. i just went ballistic right away. if there is one thing i hate more than the geneva convention is environmentalist whackos. you have a million people dying from malaria and they want to fight it with nets. and i don't want to use nets because i live in this century and we have better stuff for killing right now. we could kill all of these mosquitos with ddt and not nets and save the kids, but the...