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Ep. 01: Ecocide
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Ep. 01: Ecocide
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The story of the use of Agent Orange in the Vietnam War and the origin of the term "Ecocide" | In the autumn of 1942, a graduate student named Arthur Galston was working alone in a laboratory in Illinois, studying soybeans. What he found would eventually contribute to one of the most ecologically destructive chemicals ever deliberately released into a living landscape.
Between 1962 and 1971, the United States sprayed 76 million liters of herbicide across the forests, riverbanks, and farmland of South Vietnam. Agent Orange stripped five million acres of canopy, destroyed half the country's mangrove forests, and deposited a dioxin contaminant into the soil and food chain that is still measurable in the Vietnamese population born decades after the last spray mission.
"Ecocide" traces the scientists who tried to stop it, the companies that knew what they were producing and kept producing it, and the word that Arthur Galston coined in 1970 for a crime the world still doesn't have a law to punish.