Posted on 05/05/2006 5:40:16 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
The yawn that greeted the announcement this week -- reported on by Joyce Howard Price -- that officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development are now vigorously endorsing and funding the use of DDT in Africa is representative of the world community's general lack of concern over the hundreds of millions of people who suffer from malaria every year. We applaud USAID's decision, even if we regret how long it's taken to reach it.
Put bluntly, malaria's killing spree -- believed to be somewhere in the realm of 50 million people since 1972 -- is worse than AIDS. Of the 500 million annual victims, 90 percent live in Africa. In the sub-Saharan nation of Uganda alone, malaria is responsible for the deaths of 100,000 children under the age of 5 every year. In dollar amounts, the United Nations says malaria costs Africa about $12 billion annually, or about 40 percent of its health expenditures.
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First, study after study have found no evidence that DDT has any negative effects on human health. Second, concerns over its environmental impact are exaggerated at best, and could be controlled easily with regulated spraying in homes instead of on crops.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
Apparantly Greenpeace believes that germs are people too.
DDT is not an herbacide.
Take a look at the videos and you will get the message.
Try this one to start with:
http://www.minutemanhq.com/~video/mcdc_crossing.mpg
I guess he's trying to make the analogy between illegal aliens and insects. Cute. It's a line of thinking that leads to pretty evil consequences. I imagine OBL referred to US citizens as vermin a few times himself, while his organization trained suicide bombers to carry out 9-11.
Yes I do believe that a "Sar-Chasm" was formed between us that I failed to notice.
Maybe 10 years ago I took my kids to the museum of Natural history in Wash DC. I was disturbed to see that it was full of politically correct envirowackoism and they had an exhibit devoted to Rachel Carson (Silent Spring, DDT etc). I was explaining to my kids how this woman was responsible for the deaths of millions of people by vilifying a chemical that reduced malaria cases by <90% and that was essentially harmless to humans. The look on the faces of other parents and kids who overheard me was priceless.
Nice....
As the commercial goes, "Bad Andy, Good Pizza!"
I dont know what "study after study" this article is refering to, but I ran a Pubmed seach and found some studies saying otherwise.
I'm surprised to learn that DDT is still been using used so widely.
While the environmental impact is probably greatly exagerated, DDT has one big problem in that it is very persistent. Mother Nature does not break this chemical down.
Even today, after DDT was banned in the US in the 1970s, it is still the most common pesticide found on vegetables in grocery stores.
Malaria, mosquitos and insects are huge problems that we should solve. But we should use other insecticides instead of DDT.
Eco-fascists have killed more people, mostly women, children and babies, than Hitler.
As a college student in Appalachia in the 50's I witnessed the reverence in which rural people held DDT. "Ain't no flies on Jesus, 'cause He's sprayed with DDT" was a popular radio tune. Mountain people would eat DDT and feed it to their children to kill parasites such as intestinal worms. The plague of mosquitoes was all but eradicated.
The environmental movement in the 60's was flexing its muscles by opposing DDT. It did not matter that DDT was then and remains today the greatest blessing to the health of poor people. They proved that they have the clout to destroy the most beneficial resources available to mankind.
Anti-humanity crusaders have always opposed all technologies that benefit humans. Their terrorist screeds in support of the environment are nothing more than an immoral oposition to free enterprise and property rights.
More liberalism in action... Since Rachel Carson's book and the banning of DDT, it's estimated that millions of children have died from malaria... and it continues to this day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT
Just another straw in the liberal's hat of evil, death, and destruction.
Africa is such a basket case, including overpopulation in relation to food supply, that it is debatable whether saving Africans is a benefit or curse.
Actually, Greenpeace thinks people are germs, not the other way around. When you are a population Nazi, malaria is a solution, people are the problem.
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