Posted on 05/21/2019 5:10:13 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Just another California Blissninny.
Since the world wasn’t a happy flowery little place all the time where everything is always peachy, the halfwit went coo-coo and decided that it was the Big Blue Meanies who did it.
Everything you hear out of CA stems from this attitude, especially in NorCal.
They never stop being children. Maturity is for suckers.
Having lived here for almost 4 decades it really defined what happened in the ‘60s for me: these twerps just couldn’t cope, so they went off the deep end.
Elderly Baby Boomer wannabe Rachel’s wander the streets of Palo Alto to this day, wearing their sneakers and fisherman’s hats mumbling to themselves with Hillary! bumperstickers on the back of their Prius.
Liberal-Nonsense-Killed-Millions-Of-Children BUMP
The science in the 50s did not exist to make an informed determination whether long term exposure to DDT caused an elevated risk of cancer. It had been tested on soldiers and prisoners and was found not to be toxic in doses that were used for fumigation and pest control. Unlike cigarettes that could be controlled for in an observational study, the widespread use of DDT meant nearly everyone on the planet had been exposed to it so there was no control group to compare with. The ban was justified based on the notion that there must be some non-zero risk of causing cancer so better safe than sorry. This ignored the risk/benefit analysis that showed it would save millions of lives even if it had a small chance of causing cancer. The real reason it got banned was because it gave the emerging EPA enormous political and economic power to regulate the chemical industry.
I did the same in 1956 New Mexico! The DDT fog was so cooling on a hot day!
Killing millions is the main goal of the environmental nuts.
Yes she is. May she rot in hell. Worship at the alter of human deity. DDT saved millions. Bushes singlehanded pulled off a multimillion iLife scam.
iirc, about 1 million people, mostly children, are STILL dying every YEAR due to malaria and other mosiquito borne diesease.
Bill Gates has to get with it on the donations of insect nets over the beds.
Of course nobody mention that most of the malaria deaths were black....millions....a liberal’s true outcome. Guess there were no planned parentoods in Africa and India.
We used to chase that thing on our bicycles riding in and out of the cloud like children following the Pied Piper.
Same here except it was on Barksdale AFB in NW Louisiana.
Back in the 90s I took my young daughters to the Smithstonian Institute in DC where I was appalled to find a bunch of politically correct exhibits. One of these was about the dangers of chemicals in the environment and the “great” female scientist Rachel Carson. I explained to my kids how she had DDT banned and how this resulted in the deaths of millions of people. Standing nearby was a teacher and a group of school kids who unknowingly had heard me. The teacher got a horrified look on her face and led the students to another exhibit. It was awesome.
“There were a total of 118 deaths due to malaria in the United States between 1979 and 1998 with an average of 5.9 deaths per year.”
“Malaria kills 1 million to 2 million people every year. 90% of the deaths occur in Africa.”
Not seeing a problem here.
A fun little story:
Placebo Defect · Stephen A. Kallis, Jr. · Analog Science Fiction & Fact [v112 #15, Mid-December 1992]
Too bad we all died early.
...oh wait...
Too bad she isn’t still around so she could be prosecuted. Do people realize what a huge problem was created from her stupidity?
Look, I like birds, too. But if birds have to be killed to save humans, I’m fine with it. We’re in the End Times, anyway, so ALL species will be extinct soon anyway.
This whole DDT ban makes me angry. The next-worse thing the enviroNUTS did was to to take lead out of fuel and paint. A close third is the ban on asbestos.
Pissing on her grave is on my bucket list
Contracted malaria about 15 years ago and while it hasnt been much of a problem the last few years its been inconvenient and far from pleasant
Maybe she was afraid to point a finger at the pesticide women ingest regularly to combat inconvenient children.
“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).
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It’s good he shocked his audience, but he should have been pushing a book cart because the collected works of communists have killed as many or more than both the above together.
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