I doubt he had either. Sometimes it's necessary to smack someone in the face with the cold, hard truth of things. He's perfectly willing to let thousands of persons in third world ratholes die from perfectly preventable diseases in order to gain for himself some perceived benefit.
Truth be told, I doubt the poster has the actual intellectual capacity to think at all. He values the lives of eagles (btw there's absolutely no evidence that DDT harms them at all but that's another subject) over the lives of black and brown people around the world. To my mind, it's the absolute worse sort of racism.
He's got his, and the rest of the world be damned. His kids can see eagles (although I seriously doubt he actually lives somewhere where they can see eagles) so it's perfectly alright for some African villagers kids to suffer from malaria, or west nile fever, or some other mosquito borne disease.
He's fortunate he lives in a Western country where we can afford more expensive pesticides in order to control disease carrying pests. In Africa, Asia, and South America they don't have that luxury. The proper use of DDT could save quite probably hundreds of thousands of lives annually in those regions but folks like him don't give a damn about those people. Apparently, all they are fit for is making his Nikes and dying young.
It's an attitude that's endemic to the environmental movement and it makes me sick.
Sorry if I offended you, but people like that need to be called exactly what they are as loudly and as often as possible.
Scratch a liberal, find a fascist. That's just the way things are.
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That's exactly what many of the anti-pesticide mob want.
Banning DDT to control the population
Population control advocates blamed DDT for increasing third world population. In the 1960s, World Health Organization authorities believed there was no alternative to the overpopulation problem but to assure that up to 40 percent of the children in poor nations would die of malaria. As an official of the Agency for International Development stated, "Rather dead than alive and riotously reproducing."