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To: Twotone
Rachel Carson. With her help in banning DDT, she condemned millions of Africans to death from mosquito-borne diseases.

That's why I laughed when Bill and Melinda Gates promised $10 million for mosquito netting to send to Africa. If they really wanted to save lives, they'd have lobbied to repeal the ban on DDT.

16 posted on 04/06/2019 7:23:57 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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To: MuttTheHoople

You beat me too it!

Though one could argue that wasn’t her intent. Perhaps the people to really blame are the western politicians who gave her nonsense power. Also there is the public who allowed themselves to be stampeded into accepting her as an environmental guru!


28 posted on 04/06/2019 7:43:31 AM PDT by Reily
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To: MuttTheHoople
Rachel Carson. With her help in banning DDT, she condemned millions of Africans to death from mosquito-borne diseases.

I disagree. A truly evil person intends the consequences of their evil acts. I doubt that Rachel Carson intended to kill millions of people. In contrast, Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao, Castro, Kim, Cromwell, Robespierre, and many others, intended to kill, and they did with evil in their hearts.

31 posted on 04/06/2019 7:47:35 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: MuttTheHoople

And that dickless feck Williian Ruckleshouse, 1st EPA administrator under Dick Nixon, who read and re-read Silent Spring then completely ignored his own scientists findings and banned DDT.


46 posted on 04/06/2019 8:04:53 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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