Does Zika Warrant Bringing Back DDT?
That’s the whole raison d’etre ...Been waiting for this -
Lotsa money to make with DDT...
Now that the eagles, osprey, peregrine falcons, sea turtles, etc etc have finally made a comeback - let’s kill ‘em off again.
Doesn’t just kill off bird population:
Matching charts for the use of DDT and the rise of polio -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7Af_3bFFaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l19smkrSNR4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hw4R05zk7g
Go ahead, Freepers - flame away
An opinion backed by facts should not draw flames. But the facts have to be fact checked and verified, because so many facts today just ain't so. (AGW, prime example)
Predatory birds had made a substantial comeback long before DDT was outlawed. Controlling predation by hunters was the cure.
Statistical coincidence is not scientific proof.
There is little money to be made in the production of DDT. It is cheap and easy to make. It has little economic value as a brokered commodity. Its chief value is exterminating pests.