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DDT saves lives -
Opinion Journal ^ | November 9, 2005

Posted on 11/09/2005 7:51:34 AM PST by UnklGene

DDT Saves Lives -

November 8, 2005

It's horrifying enough that malaria -- a preventable and curable disease -- claims one million lives every year and that most victims are Africa's pregnant women and children under five. Compounding this tragedy, however, is the global lobbying effort against the most effective method of combating the mosquito-borne illness: spraying outdoors and inside houses with the insecticide DDT...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: ddt; ecoping; treehuggers
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1 posted on 11/09/2005 7:51:34 AM PST by UnklGene
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To: UnklGene
most victims are Africa's pregnant women and children under five.

That's the ticket! Why didn't somebody think of saying this before now?

Women and Minorities Hardest Hit!!!

2 posted on 11/09/2005 7:53:49 AM PST by thulldud (The Democratic military vote is the REAL "Army of One".)
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The DDT ban made who feel good?


3 posted on 11/09/2005 7:56:01 AM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: ncountylee

Rachel Carson, wouldja think?


4 posted on 11/09/2005 7:57:40 AM PST by thulldud (The Democratic military vote is the REAL "Army of One".)
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To: ncountylee
"The DDT ban made who feel good?"

The mosquitoes!

5 posted on 11/09/2005 7:58:27 AM PST by TommyDale
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To: UnklGene

Interesting information I found when examining options for pest control on our ranch.

http://www.junkscience.com/ddtfaq.htm

We prefer organic methods but, some insects only understand the "nuclear option". Haven't ever tried DDT, I don't believe it's even available in the U.S.


6 posted on 11/09/2005 8:07:25 AM PST by Amish with an attitude (An armed society is a polite society)
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To: editor-surveyor

ping.


7 posted on 11/09/2005 8:07:59 AM PST by BufordP (Excluding the WOT, I haven't trusted W since he coined the term "compassionate conservative")
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To: UnklGene

Perhaps the ban is how liberals seek to reduce the number of impoverished people throughout the world.


8 posted on 11/09/2005 8:14:38 AM PST by ConservativeMind
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To: Amish with an attitude
Haven't ever tried DDT, I don't believe it's even available in the U.S.

Mexico still uses it... as well as R-12, Chloridane, etc, etc.

9 posted on 11/09/2005 8:14:47 AM PST by fso301
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To: UnklGene; editor-surveyor
Mr. Brownback's efforts to correct this are meeting resistance from other Members of Congress, particularly in the House. The relevant appropriations bill is currently in House-Senate negotiations, and GOP Representative Jim Kolbe of Arizona is chief among those pushing for watered-down language. His argument is that Congress should defer to the "experts" at AID and resist "micromanaging." But if the agency has reached a point where it is allowing women and children to suffer and die rather than employ methods that work, it's time for Congress to exercise some adult supervision.

Ping

10 posted on 11/09/2005 8:15:55 AM PST by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional.)
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To: UnklGene

this is what Bill Gates gave all thoses millions to find a Vac for!!, how about a little DDT.


11 posted on 11/09/2005 8:18:35 AM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: ConservativeMind
Perhaps the ban is how liberals seek to reduce the number of impoverished people throughout the world.

There is no perhaps about it. The anti-DDT bandwagon was hitched directly to the over population propagandists.

12 posted on 11/09/2005 8:22:24 AM PST by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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To: UnklGene

The DDT ban has killed more human beings than Hitler was responsible for killing! It was based on junk science and its continuation is immoral.


13 posted on 11/09/2005 8:43:37 AM PST by Eaglewatcher
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To: UnklGene
The ĐT ban helps prevent Africans and thus reduces racism, or something.
14 posted on 11/09/2005 8:51:21 AM PST by arthurus (Better to fight them over THERE than over HERE.)
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Africa is not the only place that the DDT ban is effecting the human population. It also effects the whole sub continent on Asia and it is a problem here in the USA in the Southeast and it also has helped in the spread of the west Nile problem.
15 posted on 11/09/2005 9:00:11 AM PST by Eaglewatcher
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Image hosted by Photobucket.com so they can starve to death???
16 posted on 11/09/2005 9:01:27 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: Eaglewatcher

Nowadays here in the southeast we are developing a varied collection of mosquito born deadly diseases. But then the enviros look upon the southeast as being Africa, too.


17 posted on 11/09/2005 9:06:05 AM PST by arthurus (Better to fight them over THERE than over HERE.)
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To: BufordP; brityank; 1Old Pro; aardvark1; a_federalist; abner; alaskanfan; alloysteel; alfons; ...
Thanks for the pings!

Seems like we're constantly abandoning that which works, and spending billions on that which does not.

18 posted on 11/09/2005 9:41:41 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Atheist and Fool are synonyms; Evolution is where fools hide from the sunrise)
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To: BufordP; brityank; 1Old Pro; aardvark1; a_federalist; abner; alaskanfan; alloysteel; alfons; ...
Thanks for the pings!

Seems like we're constantly abandoning that which works, and spending billions on that which does not.

19 posted on 11/09/2005 9:41:42 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Atheist and Fool are synonyms; Evolution is where fools hide from the sunrise)
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To: UnklGene
Rachel lied. And children died.
20 posted on 11/09/2005 9:50:34 AM PST by southernnorthcarolina (Dems: personalities and tactics. GOP: policies and ideas.)
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