On Earth Day 2006 the Ninth Street Bridge in Pittsburgh was renamed The Rachael Carson Bridge. It would be nice to see this posted along the span.
I may do so.
The Grim 50th Anniversary of “Silent Spring”
http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/12996-the-grim-50th-anniversary-of-silent-spring
Documentary Exposes the Horrific Human Cost of the DDT Ban
http://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/movies/item/15588-documentary-exposes-the-horrific-human-cost-of-the-ddt-ban
DDT Ban Breeds Death
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/15583-ddt-breeds-death
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On Earth Day 2006 the Ninth Street Bridge in Pittsburgh was renamed The Rachael Carson Bridge. It would be nice to see this posted along the span.
I may do so.
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I am in Sierra Leone working with a missionary and spend a lot of time with the locals. I bring this up at every instance I can to try and get them to understand how EVIL this woman was, and the administration which enabled her.
Many of them want to go further, but there is no political will to do so.
Rachel Carson and the Leftist environs is are responsible for the deaths of millions because of the ban on DDT. Broken birds’ eggs were thir prime concern, not the health of children in Africa.
many a fun hour were spent running through the thick fogs of the mosquito spraying trucks...
and ne’er a sign of ill effect...
bring back ddt.
in the end, it will make the eggs stronger through resistance.
Ms Carson is the first of ‘Environmental Liars’...on my model railroad layout, I have the Rachel Carson Junkyard...and Al Gore Coal Power Plant...
Was Rachel Carson the greatest mass killer of the 20th Century?
There were a few horrible books back then that changed the course of civilization to a downward turn.
One was “The Population Bomb” by Paul Erhlich.
Another was “Silent Spring”.
Rachel Carson and the EPA’s subsequent ban of DDT are responsible for millions - literally millions - of deaths in the Third World from malaria. This is no way around it.
The ban on DDT was purely political—Nixon signed it in hopes of currying favor with the Left.
Didn’t work, BTW.
DDT worked and saved lives. - I live on the river where
mosquitoes are pretty plentiful. I take garlic capsules.
Even the “odorless” garlic capsules sweat out enough garlic
smell on the skin to repel the buggers - also repels ticks
for me. If I get one on me; they don’t seize since I’ve taken the garlic capsules. Fingers crossed.
Wasn't the big push to ban DDT due to the fact that it allegedly was killing birds (hence the title "Silent Spring")?