Posted on 07/14/2004 2:59:07 PM PDT by swilhelm73
Literally tens of millions of people have died needlessly as a direct result of the DDT ban.
On the issue of birds.....
One has to wonder why you suddenly began to see hawks, herons, and eagles again after the ban, and then a population explosion of all of the above soon after.
In terms of the effects on birds in the US, I don't think there was anything wrong with the DDT science.
With West Nile proliferating, DDT really needs to be revisited by UNbiased researchers.
And at a time when West Nile has become a concern - it's time to start using DDT again.
It's time that the junk science behind the banning of DDT be made public - and I don't mean simply on an internet web page - IT's time for new hearings and a re-evaluation.
What an amazing bunch the Left is. They accuse anyone not on their side of lies (even when the truth is being told) - but have no qualms about lying themselves...
I've always looked at the DDT ban as one of the more insideously transparent methods of population control favored by the left.
"Let the brown people die so there will be more room on earth for me."
Its just sick.
They're also doing it by promoting promiscuity in AIDS ravaged Africa. See recent posts on condoms vs. abstinance.
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It was Rachel Carlson and her book "Silent Spring" that started the hysteria against DDT
We need to bring this stuff back and pronto....
DDT saves lives....the ban on DDT costs human lives...
It never hurt us.
Of course I read it.
I have little doubt there are plenty of peer-reviewed scientific studies documenting a DDT-egg thinning link, as well as ones not showing one, and I suspect the former outnumber the latter. The article, of course, selected the studies supporting its position.
I've also lived in rural areas for the majority of my life and spend a lot of time observing the wildlife.
When I was a child, seeing a hawk, osprey, heron etc. was a BIG DEAL. Now there's one on every other telelphone pole or marker buoy.
You are correct about the birds, I think. We never saw Canada Geese except in flight. We never saw an Eagle in the wild but see them often now along the Merrimac river. Many things have occurred over the years however that may have caused these populations to recover as did the White tail deer population and I think it is for two relatively simple reasons. One, for the deer and the goose their primary predator is essentially outlawed today and that is the the dog that runs loose during the day and night as it is a violation of law in nearly all towns to have them run free. For the Eagle, they now have plenty of salmon to eat. Before about 15 years ago, dams on the rivers had no fish ladders and very little food for the big birds.
Do we really need the to decrease the mortality rate of the third world. They breed like rats, immigrate here, and breed like rats. Come on, until this people mitigate their birth rates their mortality rate should not subside. They live naturally thus they should die naturally. We cannot intefere with death in these places unless we interfere with life, it throws everything out of balance. Besides that I do not want to live in a rat cage, which is what I see happening. Call me heartless but I am damn sick of all these people and third world customs being dumped on us.
Well, this was living on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, so Salmon were not the issue....
Many of the birds mentioned as exploding in population in the originally posted article are NOT large top predators, such as blackbirds, and when it does mention such birds, it uses small scale increases of them in a small locality, like Ospreys in one particular location.
DDT wasn't the sole cause of the problems of large top predator birds, but I'm fairly confident it was one of the main ones.
That said, in countries with severe malaria problems in the Third World, you still use it of course.
2 things you need to know about DDT
1) it works
2) the science that precipitated it's ban was phony.
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OMG= Carson's "silent spring" is not a bible? Who would have 'thunk it'?
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