Posted on 04/05/2007 8:14:59 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
Africa ping.
Rachel Carson is responsible for more deaths in the last 50 years than the Nazis and Communists combined.
You wrote this article? Nice job.
Thanks. Bookmarking.
I was with him up until there, when he hade a gross assumption based on political correctness. There is overwhelming evidence to suggest otherwise for many of them. Starting with Mugabe ...
Back in the 1970's, the EPA summed up 9000 pages by declaring," DDT is not a carcinogenic hazard to man". Despite that, EPA head William Rucklehaus without reading a single word of that report banned DDT.
The blood of millions is on the head of such people.
I personally know this, but I have a liberal for a professor. Considering that I’ve already written papers on why gun-control is wrong and why the ghetto gangster culture is bad, I’m on thin ice as is.
Conversely, in certain types of malaria, the patient never truly gets rid of the disease. The malarial symptoms will reoccur periodically. Should these patients become infected with HIV they will die quicker. HIV and malaria have really done a number on the populations of Africa.
The supposed “science” behind the banning of DDT has been shown more than once to be a complete fraud.
DDT is one of the most effective and safe pesticides ever developed - but a handful of Enviro-Nazi thugs (lead by Rachel Carson) perpetrated a lie on the world, much like the one being pushed by the looser Al Gore.
And living here in the heart of Arkansas Mosquito country, I sure wish DDT could be used!
Its immoral to ban DDT imo.
“African leaders.........are undoubtedly concerned about the welfare of their people.”
Yes.....we see evidence of this every day, don’t we? /s
Is failing to use DDT immoral?
The birds sing while millions die of malaria .....
Very good essay.
A village can have a silent spring if all of its young are wiped out by malaria.
Often these things are replaced with substances of similar chemical properties. Often even worse! I suggest you look at how Permethrin works and its side effects. I used the stuff while in the Pacific and Iraq and sprayed it all over my BDU’s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permethrin
What I know however, is that no matter what the potential side effects are of substances like DDT or Permethrin, the threat posed by things like: African Sleeping disease, Malaria, types of Typhus, leishmaniasis......., sound a whole lot worse! I would much rather take the risk of some adverse side effects with something like DDT (very unlikely if properly used) and reduce the more dangerous and immanent threats. Banning certain substances that can easily be mass produced or produced at low costs and imposing stupid laws that serve no one other than some politician promoting his career and stroking his ego amounts to irresponsible behavior. The World Wildlife Fund can be proud of saving some bird eggs somewhere (maybe), they should also pay for all the kids that caught malaria (for sure)!
There is cause and effect to everything. Had we had DDT in Africa all these years, it would have allowed the population to grow faster and exceed their ability to find food and shelter. They may have used up their natural resources faster, and famine and disease would be the result. It’s all relative.
And the Watermelons, Green on the outside Red on the Inside, *like* it that way, as do the "pure" environmental wackos. People bad, everything else good.
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