Her wacky theory has caused untold deaths, not just from malaria, but yellow fever, equine fever and a host of other diseases. And, yet, the ban on DDT continues, to the detriment of the human race.
She deserves the "honor" of being called deadlier than Stalin - she was!! She is the embodiment of the irreversible damage and incredible danger that envirowackos worldwide are responsible for.
I wonder how many will die because the environmentalists won't let us turn over a rock in this country to get at domestic oil? We can continue to buy JIHAD JUICE at our peril.
We are INSANE not to be drilling in ANWR, no matter how much or how little oil is there. Pristine my butt....how about....GOD-FORSAKEN!
This is exciting news. They are going to allow the use of DDT in Africa. We can just sit back and wait for the spin on this one. The Drive By Media won't be able to stand it if anything good happens because of using DDT!
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Good science is not important. Science that pushes an agenda is.
Human life is not important. Animal life is.
Economic difficulties in a human society are not a bad thing. They're a good thing.
It's the Marxist "immiseration" philosophy.
I'm convinced Rachel Carson's war on DDT was a stealth population control measure, to reduce the number of poor brown people in the world. In that respect, she fits right in with Margaret Sanger, founder of the Planned Barrenhood system of death franchises; as well of course with Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao, etc.
Scams, Scalawags, and an all-too-gullible Public...famous frauds sold to America
Thank God the day of the envirowhack appears to almost be over. Rachel Carson and William Ruckelshaus have killed two or three times the number of people of whoever was in second place. Carson is probably down there getting it on with Hitler or Stalin right now in some sort of a boudoir kept at 1700 F.
Well, not utterly discredited. Perhaps the scope and scale of the alleged harm was discredited . . . maybe. After all, it is a chemical.
HIGHLIGHTS: Exposure to DDT, DDE, and DDD occurs mostly from eating foods containing small amounts of these compounds, particularly meat, fish and poultry. High levels of DDT can affect the nervous system causing excitability, tremors and seizures. In women, DDE can cause a reduction in the duration of lactation and an increased chance of having a premature baby. . . .
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In animals, short-term exposure to large amounts of DDT in food affected the nervous system, while long-term exposure to smaller amounts affected the liver. Also in animals, short-term oral exposure to small amounts of DDT or its breakdown products may also have harmful effects on reproduction.
Browsing through the ToxFAQ suggests to me the decision to use DDT is strictly cost/benefit stuff. More people will live because of it than will become sick or die because of it. Guess we'll know in ten or twenty years.
What would Thomas Malthus say? :-)
Thanks for posting this!!
Thank's for posting this.
I remember my mom getting all caught up in the Rachel Carson stuff back then.
I never dreamt of how many tens of millions would die because of Carson.
I teach junior high history. School ends next month and so we have made it up to the 60s. Hippies, LBJ and Rachel Carson. I explained to the kids (since the text didn't) that Rachel and her book were responsible for more deaths than Stalin and Hitler combined. Simple math really. At least 1,000,000 deaths per year from malaria alone over the last 40 years.
When the ban DDT movement was starting a chemistry professor offered to eat a pound of DDT to show how harmless to humans it was. He did it too. And of course he died—of old age some 35 years later.
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.
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?
I always thought this was a perfect example of the "Road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions".
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.