The Malaria Clock: A Green Eco-Imperialist Legacy of Death

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The Malaria Clock:

A Green Eco-Imperialist Legacy of Death

In April 1972, after seven months of testimony, EPA Administrative Law Judge Edmund Sweeney stated that “DDT is not a carcinogenic hazard to man. ... The uses of DDT under the regulations involved here do not have a deleterious effect on freshwater fish, estuarine organisms, wild birds, or other wildlife. ... The evidence in this proceeding supports the conclusion that there is a present need for the essential uses of DDT.”*

Two months later, EPA head [and Environmental Defense Fund member/fundraiser] William Ruckelshaus - who had never attended a single day’s session in the seven months of EPA hearings, and who admittedly had not even read the transcript of the hearings - overturned Judge Sweeney’s decision. Ruckelshaus declared that DDT was a “potential human carcinogen” and banned it for virtually all uses.**

Since 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.****

That exceeds one needless premature death every 12 seconds for more than three decades.

According to the World Health Organisation, 9 out of 10 of these, some victims of fluorescent-green excess, were likely pregnant women, or children under the age of five. Unborn through five-year-old body counts such as this are certainly difficult to reconcile with the repetitive green rallying cry of "For The Children." In fact, infanticide on this scale appears without parallel in human history.*****

How is it that Gaia can be painted an Earthmother nurture-figure whilst demanding an annual sacrifice of roughly two million, four hundred and thirty thousand infants, pending mothers and their untallied unborn? This is not ecology. This is not conservation. This is genocide.

Let's be unequivocal, spraying DDT inside dwellings presents no discernable human or environmental hazard. "Resistance" is not an issue since this mostly takes the form of avoidance and keeping mosquitoes away from human prey is the intended object anyway. DDT presents no patent issues to upset anti-globalists/anti-capitalists and, at pennies a pound, DDT is affordable and cost-effective health care for developing nations.

In short, anti-malarial use of DDT allows more healthy populations to work, generate wealth and climb out of the poverty/subsistence hole in which "caring greens" apparently wish to keep them trapped. DDT bans are not pro-environment - they're anti-human. Worse, they attack impoverished, developing societies least able to protect themselves.

Since you have been on this page more people have been afflicted by malaria and died of this devastating morbidity, 90% of whom were pregnant women and young children.

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* Sweeney EM. EPA Hearing Examiner’s recommendations and findings concerning DDT hearings. 25 April 1972 (40 CFR 164.32)
** Ackerly RL. DDT: a re-evaluation, part II. Chemical Times and Trends. October 1981:55
*** Based on the median WHO estimate 300 million to 500 million cases globally each year, clock start date set July 1, 1972
**** Based on an estimated 2.7 million malarial deaths per year - "The Intolerable Burden of Malaria: A New Look at the Numbers," - supplement to The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. The supplement was published by the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) with support from MIM partners, including NIH, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, GlaxoSmithKline, the Rockefeller Foundation, The United Kingdom Medical Research Council, The United Nations Foundation, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), The Wellcome Trust, and the World Health Organization.
***** Note that some of these cases would have occurred irrespective of DDT use. Note also that, while enormously influential, the US ban did not immediately terminate global DDT use and that developing world malaria mortality increased over time rather than instantly leaping to the estimated value of 2,700,000 deaths per year. However, certain in the knowledge that even one human sacrificed on the altar of green misanthropy is infinitely too many, I let stand the linear extrapolation of numbers from an instant start on the 1^st of the month following this murderous ban. -- Ed.

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Suggested additional resources: DDT FAQ;
Facts Versus Fears (Third Edition) - A Review of the Greatest Unfounded Health Scares of Recent Times;
Eco-Imperialism - Green Power. Black Death
The Worst Thing Nixon Ever Did

[Stoat]

I doubt that the clocks in this page are going to work through the FR system, so you'll need to open the original page up in a new browser window. Warning...the level of suffering that it shows will likely take your breath away.

[Oldexpat]

Before the ban..
The use of DDT in talcum powder to treat humans for lice and body lice was commonplace. I used to carry a small can of "Moms" talc with DDT in my travel kit when staying in lousey hotels in SE Asia in the early 70s. It helped prevent getting lice and and kept the mosq.

[Ptarmigan]

We should treat those Eco-Nazis as terrorists like Al-Qaeda. Let the bombings begin. A good start would be the IRS audit them, like what happened to the NAACP.

[maine-iac7]

links follow "DDT/Polio Epidemic United States 1942-1962 Polio is a disease of the central nervous system..

All victims were subjected to sustained doses of DDT, a chlorohydrocarbon central nervous system poison.

The chemical formula for DDT is an organic molecule capable of being absorbed into the human nervous system. It has 5 added chlorine atoms and 2 added phenyl molecules, to give it toxic characteristics: dichloro-biphenyl-trichloroethane

DDT causes excess the generation of quinolinic acid (an excitatory neurotransmitter chemical), which contributes to the degradation of neurons ("neuronal necrosis") and inflammation of nerve tissue (John H. Menkes, Textbook Of Child Neurology (1995)).

far from admitting a causal relationship [pesticides=polio] so obvious that in any other field of biology it would be instantly accepted, virtually the entire apparatus of communication, lay and scientific alike, has been devoted to denying, concealing, suppressing, distorting and attempts to convert into its opposite, the overwhelming evidence." (M.S. Biskind

http://www.geocities.com/harpub/smon.htm

http://www.westonaprice.org/envtoxins/pesticides_polio.html

just a couple of sites that detail studies showing the link between DDT and polio.

the chemical companies stand to make big bucks if they get the go ahead with this again - and we could reign down chemical warfare on ourselves...Is it worth the risk?

[backhoe]

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