Posted on 05/11/2006 3:32:58 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
I recently had an arguement with a friend about this. She claimed that ddt was responsible for the near extinction of the bald eagle. While acknowledging that the ban on ddt has killed tens of millions of humans, she still holds that protecting animals is more important. When she nixed ANWAR because of the Exxon Valdez, I finally just had to change the subject.
What you said!!
I've been saying the exact same thing for years!! Even got into a spirited discussion at a party this weekend on the exact same topic.
Thanks goodness I still have two buckets of DDT in the back of my garage
For the life of me I can't remember his name right now, but he died on July 19th, 2004 at the age of 85 when he fell while moutain climbing!!!
I am conservative on most topics but I still don't understand why so many of you are critical of environmentalists. What's wrong with being concerned about our natural environment.
There are just as many 'wacky' religious Christian fundamentalists and 'wacky' corrupt businesspeople as there are 'wacky' environmentalist. Why pick on them?
J. Gordon Edwards (1919-2004) was an entomologist mountain climber, an author, and park ranger. Edwards was professor, and later emeritus professor of Biology, San Jose State University. He died on July 19 of a heart attack while hiking up Divide Mountain with his wife, Alice. He was 84.
I believe that you are conflating two things:
What's wrong with being concerned about our natural environment.
Absolutely nothing. Many Conservatives care a great deal about the environment. Land management is just good sense. Hunters care about wildlife. Christians are called to be good stewards of the earth. The reasons why Conservatives care about our environment are many.
I still don't understand why so many of you are critical of environmentalists.
Ah! You see, every environmentalist I've ever met has been a Marxist who cares less about the environment than I do. What they care about is the destruction of western values, the elimination of industrial capitalism, and the ruin of Christianity. I don't have any tolerance for people like that.
More people will eat, too, if it is used against food pests, like the Medfly.
he Mediterranean fruit fly, or medfly, is one of the world's most destructive farm pests. It lays its eggs in fruit and vegetables, causing them to rot, larvae-infested on the ground. The medfly has menaced Latin America's fruit industry since its invasion early this century, depriving countries of food supplies and valuable export opportunities. The foremost victims have been small farmers, rural workers and the natural environment.
Because their very actions hurt humans. They use distorted and false data to back their claims. They "take" private property in the name of thje enviroment. They have sent people to prison for covering a hole on their own land. Look at what the false hysteria on DDT has caused.
The MSM and our teachers have preached this false environmental gospel for a couple of generations now. Look at the false premise of man-caused global warming. The KYOTO treaty is nothing more than a scam to take money from the American taxpayer.
I disagree. Environmentalists want to eliminate the whole human race.
I always thought this was a perfect example of the "Road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions".
Excellent links! This article (and the ones you linked) illuminate all the naked hypocrisy of the leftists' usual hysteria about eeeeevil corporatism. I read "Silent Spring" as a teenager, and it shaped (cough) er, warped my views for years.
Sometimes, I think, for some of these "true believers", you have to do an intervention, sort of like rescuing them from a cult, to get them thinking clearly again.
I disagree. I think Dr. Carson was guilty only of thinking about one thing at a time, and like most excessive environmentalists, never considered the impact of her work outside of one very specific goal. Single-mindedness seems to go hand in hand with fanaticism. The end result was the same.
IMHO, the benefit of eliminating DDT was seen immediately by the Zero Population Growith people, who were more than happy to jump on that particular bandwagon.
I disagree. I think Dr. Carson was guilty only of thinking about one thing at a time, and like most excessive environmentalists, never considered the impact of her work outside of one very specific goal. Single-mindedness seems to go hand in hand with fanaticism. The end result was the same.
IMHO, the benefit of eliminating DDT was seen immediately by the Zero Population Growth people, who were more than happy to jump on that particular bandwagon.
The Schadenfreude of it all...
No DDT=malaria
No DDT=West Nile
West Nile = millions of dead birds...
She caused human deaths and deaths of the birds she wanted to protect.
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