Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 05/05/2008 8:31:50 AM PDT by bs9021
Inconvenient Truths and Global Crises
by: Bethany Stotts, May 05, 2008
Many of the world’s tragedies can be traced back to radical environmentalist movements, argued Competitive Enterprise Institute Fellow Iain Murray at a recent book forum. He said, “Rather…the mainstream model, the paradigm if you will, for receiving very desirable environmental ends has an inbuilt capacity for enduring disaster.”
In his new book, The Really Inconvenient Truths, Murray argues that most destructive environmentalist movements following Rachel Carson display a similar trajectory:
1. “create a populist moral fervor;”
2. “deride anyone who opposes you as evil;”
3. “get the laws passed;”
4. “enforce those laws;”
5. “and blindly refuse to acknowledge any negative consequences.”
“We will see this again and again,” he said....
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“[Rachel Carson] also gave an example of a woman who contracted leukemia the day after one contact with DDT. This sort of exaggeration and hyperbole I suggest in the book was the 1962 equivalent of a Michael Moore documentary,” said Murray...
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As Murray points out, the recall of DDT protected predatory birds but has undermined African governments’ ability to combat malaria, contributing to the deaths of millions. ...
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..The American DDT ban may have also sparked another environmental disaster: a Dutch Elm Disease epidemic...
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Murray also blames Al Gore and other “decarbonizing” lobbyists for contributing to the current world food crisis. “The U.S. corn ethanol mandate is an affront to humanitarian ideals....(snip)....“The corn used to produce 6.5 billion gallons of ethanol in 2007 could have fed 216 million people for a year...
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Murray attributes 1/3 of the current food crisis to biofuel mandates...
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...
Old story, probably a midterm paper in a required class, Sophomore year.
The last point - blindly refusing to acknowledge any negative consequences - is liberalism to a ‘T’.
Inconvenient Facts
And yet, it contains more wisdom than the entire NYT editorial board.
I have a BIG problem with today's carbon issues. The connection with global warming, if there even is one, is tenuous at best. Unlike the DDT ban, proposed limitations on carbon/carbon dioxide emissions will have a profound effect on us and require a momentous change in our lifestyles, something that is already occurring through the rise in energy costs and continued bans on domestic drilling in our most promising geological areas.
That it does. Seems like any person on the street ought to be wiser than the modern NYT editors.
100 percent agree. And in certain circumstances DDT could still be used without harming the avian populations. This carbon kick is so bogus; just a little bit of examination destroys the entire Algore thesis. Only lefty Sierra Club types buy it...
I've seen refutations of Carson's research which suggest that she falsified a great deal of it. I'll try to find a link or two to them.
100 things you should know about DDT
by J. Gordon Edwards and Steven Milloy
Interesting list of scientific studies and results. The entire issue should be revisited in light of today's technology and analytical techniques. However, I don't expect it to happen.
Wrong, the number of birds were at their peak in the year DDT was banned. The same bugs that hurt people also hurt birds. Turns out that the decline of birds was not as reported.
I agree, and no one seems to point out that milaria is “God’s way” of controlling the population in an area that might not be able to sustain it otherwise. It shouldn’t be up to the USA to feed the world, but we try, and then putting the in intended consequences of food based ethonal on top of it, bam, perfect storm.
Conservation is good, but it should come with a common sense cost benefit analysis, especially when it we have no PROOF of man made global warming.
Wait until real scientists start closely examining the real and large negative consequences of every green source of energy that the morons are having orgasms over...
We should indeed deny the 'shell-thinning effects of DDT' because it is a total myth and to date, the most evil thing the Enviro Fanatics have accomplished!
Here or
Cite some sources that show direct harm from DDT to birds
The dramatic loss of Eagle sightings might well have been because their nests were blown away in the Naples, Florida area during the hurricanes of 1972-75; there was never a shortage in Canada and the northern areas above the border.
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