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In response to this unfolding turn of events, we return to the issue raised repeatedly in Chapter
8, which is that carbofuran is fundamentally unsafe for nontarget wildlife and for people. The ques-
tion we must all ask ourselves is: why continue to skirt around such a highly preventable cause of
nontarget wildlife mortality and human health risks? The answer is that we should not, and must not.
There are certainly no easy solutions, but there is an extremely logical one: to ban the product glob-
ally. How likely is this to occur? That remains to be seen. Decades of research and regulations have
shown that there is simply no other possible solution.
