Environmentalism Kills: How Liberalism Killed 50 million Humans

The DC Writeup ^ | July 2, 2009 | AJ Fluehr

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Looking at the current Waxman-Markey Climate bill, I don’t see any hint of responsible environmentalism. Driving the razor thin passage of the Waxman-Markey Climate Bill in the House on Friday was the reasoning that global warming and the growth of man-made greenhouse gases present such a serious problem that decisive action must be taken to stem its effects. According to Al Gore and his acolytes the time for science is over, and the time for action is now.

This troubling contention, that scientific debate must be suspended and replaced with hard charging policies, has been made in the past with disastrous consequences. Let‘s take a trip back through the last fifty years and examine some of the other times we were told Mother Nature was in danger and the apocalypse was nigh.

Claim #1: DDT Poses a Major Environmental Threat

The impetus of the current environmental movement was the campaign to ban Dichloro-diphenyl-dichloromethane, otherwise known as “DDT.” Most grade school kids have read Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, which told of the horrible consequences DDT use had on bird populations and humans. To this day, many people do not know that much of the evidence Carson presented was exaggerated and even incorrect, including her incendiary claim that DDT is carcinogenic.

The fledgling environmental movement seized on this book, and instead of practicing scientific due diligence on Carson’s claims, they pursued an alarmist course of action that had grave consequences. Carson may have been correct that large amounts of DDT can hurt specific populations of birds, but the environmental pursuit of an outright DDT ban ignored the chemical’s utility in controlling malaria.

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When Poison Ivy insisted on these policies, even a liberal George Clooney Batman recognized how destructive the demands were in terms of human life.

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That is not all, Liberalism via abortion legislation has murdered/killed over 50 million potential human beings (i.e.: babies) since 1973....population control by design via those who advocate and follow the teachings of Margaret Sanger...Barry, Holdren, etc., etc.