[ZGuy]

I was just thinking about this this morning—that Ruckleshaus was directly responsible for more deaths than possibly any other person in the history of the world. My follow-up thought though, was that had he not outlawed DDT, someone in the Carter administration surely would have.

[aruanan]

I was just thinking about this this morning—that Ruckleshaus was directly responsible for more deaths than possibly any other person in the history of the world. My follow-up thought though, was that had he not outlawed DDT, someone in the Carter administration surely would have.

Possibly, but what's possible isn't actual. The recommendations of the scientists at the EPA after ALL the hearings (none of which Ruckelshaus) was that DDT did not pose a threat to humans and that it was necessary to keep it as a means to keep malaria under control. I think it probably would have remained legal until the current batch of nuts came to ripeness. Think, though, what the world could be like right now had rapidly developing and relatively more healthy nations not been cast to the malarial Molech again. If we're talking about possibilities, it's possible that these countries would have been even less likely to be susceptible to "sustainable growth" wolves in sheep's clothing.

[pointsal]

You forgot about that genius in Sacramento...the ARNULD.

He can grab almost any lame thought and run it into the ground.