Another beloved of the left who is, albeit indrectly, responsible fo rthe deaths of millions. I say indirectly, becuase the EPA didn't have to unilaterally ban DDT based on her crazy ravings. But they did.
Posted on 05/21/2019 5:10:13 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Another beloved of the left who is, albeit indrectly, responsible fo rthe deaths of millions. I say indirectly, becuase the EPA didn't have to unilaterally ban DDT based on her crazy ravings. But they did.
This time they’ll spend billions on giant Placebo Machines to fix Global Warming
Evil as are all evironazis.
I’ve always wondered two things.
1. Can DDT eradicate ticks?
2. Can I get the ingredients to make DDT in my kitchen sink?
Enviromentalists with their simplistic prognostications have killed hundreds of millions of people.
Mexican cartels should switch to smuggling DDT.
Nothing is so dangerous as a do-gooder leftist out to “help” make something “better”. d;^)
I’m addicted to placebo.
And the fools in the Pittsburgh city council named a bridge after her.
The spotlight hit him as he ascended the podium.
"Two books in this century have killed 100 million people. The first, you know (brings out Mein Kampf in his left hand), the second may surprise you" (brings out Silent Spring in his right hand).
An amazing teacher, and an amazing man. I was very lucky to know him.
I well remember her stupid little book and her too. Being as my family have been engaged in agriculture for generations in South Texas we couldn’t believe our government was so stupid as to ban DDT based on that book!
There are a few DIY DDT videos on Youtube, and various recipes floating around the "interwebs".
Fifty years ago, on those hot, sweltering mosquito infested nights in SE Asia, not having bug repellent, I used to spray myself down with DDT laden bug killer. Soaked myself in it. It worked. And I’m still here.
I call her the greatest mass murderer of all time!
Still murdering people today!
Thanks to the the useless chowderhead Ruckleshaus who Nixon appointed head of EPA. And then Dickson didn’t stop the ban. I think his wife was instrumental too. My question why hasn’t this error been corrected in the intervening years? Answer? Because congress is useless as a dick on a cow. Raising tobacco age to 21 is more important than saving millions of lives,
I used to tell my students that Rachel Carson was responsible for more deaths than Hitler and Stalin combined, albeit inadvertently. The banning of DDT caused the deaths of over a hundred million people due to malaria’s comeback. Of course the deaths were of black and brown people in countries that no one cared about, but at least the pelicans and falcons didn’t have thin egg shells.
There was a professor who offered to eat a pound of DDT to show that it was harmless to humans. The kids would ask “what happened?” And I would answer “He died...over twenty years later while climbing a mountain in his 80s”.
I think the textbooks should teach the lesson of Rachel Carson as a lesson of unintended consequences and how the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
When I was a kid in New Orleans in the late 60’s the only thing that drew as much attention as the Ice cream truck in the neighborhood was the mosquito fogger truck spewing a cloud of DDT behind it.
We used to chase that thing on our bicycles riding in and out of the cloud like children following the Pied Piper.
There were no mosquitos I ever felt while in the North.Lucky for us.
I never did take those little experimental Malaria pills they
pushed on us.
I live a stone’s throw from Rachel’s home. I past it a few times a week. I would drop F bombs as I past her street. I quit doing that recently because it grow old. My feelings are the same. She is responsible for as many deaths as Hitler and Stalin and we name a bridge after her. My best guess is she is at least partially responsible for at least 50 million deaths from malaria.
You can drink it and it won’t hurt you.
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