The Left is in favor of eugenics. How could they not when they champion abortion and euthanasia? Opposing to DDT spraying is being consistent with this outlook. The rest of the world can go to hell in a handbasket.
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It's simple economics.
It's time that America realizes that even the "Anti-consumer" is a consumer. That environmentalism is a product that is marketed and SOLD to the public.
The best one I've seen to date was in Germany in a bookstore months before deploying. There was a book in hardcover format, in color, with white bleached pages and in waxy high gloss. The title of the book was "25 Years Greenpeace". The people that buy this don't even realize what a farce they themselves are.
Thinking in terms of minimal impact is good. But we need to accept polution as the result of human activity and do those things environmentally where we get the biggest return on the dollar. Treat Environmentalism like everything else. It has a supply and demand, and there is a price for it. Yet this concept works outside the framework of common sense, risk management or basic economic theory.
Governments engage in "ecological" projects that are risky and very likely to fail and money is spent or lost in areas where you have a lesser gain or smaller impact per dollar. Why? Because "Ecology" and "Environmentalism" are political topics and emotional issues for the public. They don't see a price tag when other countries say "yea yea, sign KYOTO". How many times have you heard the comment "Think of the children"? If you were a CEO and managed money and resources the way we approach environmentalism YOU'D GET JAILED!
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Since EPA head William Ruckelshaus arbitrarily and capriciously banned DDT, an estimated cases of malaria* have caused immense suffering and poverty in the developing world. Of these largely avoidable cases, people died.
WHO estimates 9 out of 10 of these premature deaths, some victims of fluorescent-green excess, were likely pregnant women, or children under the age of five.
Infanticide on this scale appears without parallel in human history. See the complete Malaria Clock.
* Based on the median WHO estimate 300 million to 500 million cases globally each year, many of them recurrent. Clock start date set July 1, 1972 - 400 million cases x >30years = >12 billion cases.
Go to junkscience.com and scroll down to see the theoretical clock mentioned here.
There was much shrieking about how it thinned the shells of bird eggs, but unstated was that this connection came about because the birds were starving for lack of bugs to eat (the bugs having been killed by the DDT, duh). DDT per se is practically nontoxic to birds and mammals.
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