hey, their intentions were good. Who cares if science wasn't on their side???
As if they care!
They want to reduce human population.
Quoting from the latter:
" Malaria is a major, ongoing disease problem in much of the developing world. Increases in the incidence of the disease have occurred for complex reasons. Reduced insecticide usage is one, but others include the resistance to treatment in both the parasite and the mosquito vectors, changes in land use that have provided new mosquito habitat, and the movement of people into new, high-risk areas."
"Most nations where malaria is a problem, and most health professionals working in the field of malaria control, support the targeted use of DDT, as part of the tool kit for malaria control. Most also agree that more cost-effective, less environmentally persistent alternatives are needed. There are some effective alternative chemicals for the control of adult mosquitoes, but preventing their further development is lack of invest ment by industry, because malaria is largely a disease of the poor."
"Malaria is responsible for enormous suffering and death. The facts are readily available in the scientific literature. To blame a reduction in DDT usage for the death of 10-30 million people from malaria is not just simple-minded, it is demonstrably wrong. To blame a mythical, monolithic entity called the environmental lobby for the total reduction in DDT usage is not just paranoid, it is also demonstrably wrong."
Liberalism and it's deadly sisters, communism and socialism are the deadliest scourages to ever infect the planet. 46 million aborted babies, 55 million dead from malaria, 100 million dead after their "gun control" schemes. Who besides God knows the actual number that have died from their selfish and deliberate stupidity.
PING, for later!
The case against ddt was that it made the shells bird eggs very thin which cause the little birdies to die prematurally. But 30 years later along comes West Nile virus, which is spead by those pesky misquitoes. The misquetoes kill the birds before they even get a chance to lay the eggs. Since birds eat insects incuding miquitoes and there aren't many birds now, the population of the miquitoes continue to grow as the bird population dwindles.
While I think the DDT ban cost millions of lives, communism cost over 100 M lives (probably less than 200 M lives).
Communism was (and is) really, really bad.
Truth be told, I wouldn't mind several drums of DDT to use on the neighbors property, it's a ditch with fricken huge mosquito's in it...the little turds bite me daily...
Excellent article; thanks for posting it!