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Ninth Street Bridge could be renamed to honor Rachel Carson
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | 12/05/05 | Jerome L. Sherman

Posted on 12/05/2005 7:13:21 AM PST by Dane

Rachel Carson, a driving force behind the modern environmental movement, grew up in a modest homestead in Springdale Borough near the Allegheny River. For the budding marine biologist, the river's waters were an early inspiration.

Now, more than four decades after Ms. Carson's death, her presence may return to those waters.

Allegheny County Council tomorrow will consider renaming the Ninth Street Bridge in her honor. If the resolution is approved, Ms. Carson would join Roberto Clemente and Andy Warhol as namesakes for the three Downtown "Sister Bridges" that cross the Allegheny.

"This is long overdue," said Esther L. Barazzone, president of Chatham College, Ms. Carson's alma mater and home of the Rachel Carson Institute. "People realize that Rachel Carson is truly world class. We need to strengthen our connection to her."

Ms. Carson's 1962 book, "Silent Spring," criticized the harmful effects of pesticides, sparking a prolonged battle with the chemical industry. In 1970, six years after Ms. Carson's death, the federal government founded the Environmental Protection Agency. Two years later, the government banned the use of the pesticide DDT in the United States.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: enviormentalists; pittsburgh; rachelcarson
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Picture of the current soon to be "Rachel Carson" bridge.

Rachel Carson is the one who helped get rid of DDT, and has caused much misery in places where malaris is rampant, due to her "activism".

1 posted on 12/05/2005 7:13:22 AM PST by Dane
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To: Dane
Whoops, forgot the link, it is below.

Link

2 posted on 12/05/2005 7:14:59 AM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: Dane

So the bridge will now be called the "50 million dead Africans" bridge?


3 posted on 12/05/2005 7:15:34 AM PST by denydenydeny ("As a Muslim of course I am a terrorist"--Sheikh Omar Brooks, quoted in the London Times 8/7/05)
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To: Dane

Isn't she the wacko who killed a lot of people (malaria)?


4 posted on 12/05/2005 7:15:48 AM PST by altura
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To: Dane

Good Grief!

5 posted on 12/05/2005 7:18:04 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Tagline Repair Service. Let us fix those broken Taglines. Inquire within(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Dane

And here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1534156/posts


6 posted on 12/05/2005 7:19:04 AM PST by Egon (By the way, I took the liberty of fertilizing your caviar.)
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To: altura

Yep, her activism has caused untold misery amongst those in malaria infested areas, and now she is being honored by the liberals in Pittsburgh.


7 posted on 12/05/2005 7:19:11 AM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: Dane

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1534156/posts

Previous post on this. Just for your information.


8 posted on 12/05/2005 7:20:19 AM PST by Daralundy
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We actually had malaria wiped out on a worldwide basis until Rachel Carson with her propaganda started indirectly killing millions.

What's more important, bird eggs or human lives? Sadly, many countries fell for the propaganda to save the birds.

9 posted on 12/05/2005 7:20:26 AM PST by Ronaldus Magnus Reagan
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The Pittsburgh papers need to buried by letters opposing this nonsense, each one noting the number of people killed by Malaria thanks to Rachel Carson.


10 posted on 12/05/2005 7:20:39 AM PST by FormerLib (Kosova: "land stolen from Serbs and given to terrorist killers in a futile attempt to appease them.")
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Looks like a great bridge to hang a "DDT ban has killed millions of people in 3rd world countries - thanks Rachel" protest sign.


11 posted on 12/05/2005 7:20:45 AM PST by ghost of nixon
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To: Egon

My fault and I have should have done a previous search.


12 posted on 12/05/2005 7:20:46 AM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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My fault and I have should have done a previous search.

Hard for me to find fault, I'm 2 for 10. The only reason I got 2 was because they were vanities!

13 posted on 12/05/2005 7:24:09 AM PST by Egon (By the way, I took the liberty of fertilizing your caviar.)
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To: Dane

Nice bridges, stupid names... with perhaps the except of Clemente.....

I don't care what they name it, it will still be the 9th street bridge... just like the other ones are still called by their street numbers.

Politicians.... can't keep from bankrupting the city with their incompetence.. but hey, lets rename bridges and buildings and streets...

HEY GUYS.. HOW ABOUT GETTING TAXES AND SPENDING UNDER CONTROL SO WE CAN HAVE SOME TRUE ECONOMIC GROWTH HERE!!! Something that hasn't happened in 50 years!!!


14 posted on 12/05/2005 7:24:23 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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Dedication ceremonies will include setting setting the Allegheny River on fire. (just kidding, it was Cuyahoga that used to catch on fire).Seriously she helped make us aware that pesticides in the environment (See Silent Spring, DDT) were affecting the avian food chain from earthworms to robins to eagles and ospreys. What the fun loving enviros did with this is a horse of a different color.


15 posted on 12/05/2005 7:24:35 AM PST by Calusa (Say Nick, was ya ever stung by a dead bee?)
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To: denydenydeny

We should name more structures after hacks.


16 posted on 12/05/2005 7:25:00 AM PST by oyez (Appeasement is death!)
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Now, more than four decades after Ms. Carson's death, her presence may return to those waters.

I thought she was OPPOSED to pollution.

17 posted on 12/05/2005 7:26:17 AM PST by IronJack
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To: HamiltonJay
HEY GUYS.. HOW ABOUT GETTING TAXES AND SPENDING UNDER CONTROL SO WE CAN HAVE SOME TRUE ECONOMIC GROWTH HERE!!! Something that hasn't happened in 50 years!!

You shouldn't say such profanity to the powers to be in Pittsburgh. :^)

18 posted on 12/05/2005 7:27:52 AM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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"DDT ban has killed millions of people in 3rd world countries - thanks Rachel" protest sign.
How about
The DDT Ban Is
Worse than AIDS

19 posted on 12/05/2005 7:32:40 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
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Carson needs to be remembered as the person responsible for the deaths of thousands of men, women and children due to her part in getting DDT banned. That reignited the Malaria pandemic throughout Africa, Latin America and the Orient.

Quite a legacy.


20 posted on 12/05/2005 7:34:08 AM PST by hgro (A)
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