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How about Al Gore?
This book review is one of at least four articles the Baltimore Sun ran
on this misinformed twit last Sunday. Carson of course is the
author of 1962's Silent Spring, her era's An Inconvenient Truth. The book led to the world-wide banning of the pesticide DDT. Here are some truths about that.
- While DDT is highly toxic to insects and fish
and can poison other animals in large enough doses, in moderate amounts it's not
especially harmful to birds and mammals, including humans. (Ironically, the EPA's own
judge [Edmund Sweeney] agreed, but was overruled by its chief administrator [William Ruckelshaus].) [Source]
- What are "large amounts?" To prove how safe it was to warm
blooded animals, humans included, Carson skeptics ate it by the bowl
full. Controlling the over spraying near ponds and rivers was
relatively easy.
- Today, the greatest killer and disabler is malaria, which
kills a person every 30 seconds. By the 1960s, DDT had brought malaria
near to extinction. "To only a few chemicals does man owe as great a
debt as to DDT. In little more than two decades, DDT has prevented 500
million human deaths, due to malaria, that otherwise would have been
inevitable," said the National Academy of Sciences. [source]
- I won't compare Carson to Jos. Stalin, but it is likely
that she is responsible for millions of deaths world-wide, especially
in underdeveloped nations.
- More ... much more
Junk Science kills.
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One of the inconvient truths about the deaths resulting from the ban on DDT is this - To many in the Green Movement, those deaths are considered a side benefit.
ReplyDeleteThose millions are sacrificed on the alter of environmentalism for Mother Ghia.
During my youth in central Iowa, the city would have a truck and sprayer drive all through the town fogging the entire area with DDT. No person or animal suffered any ill effects. As kids we even took great delight in playing war games in the DDT fog. Junk science indeed.
ReplyDeleteYep, I took an Environmental Science class in college and yes, Rachel Carson was introduced. However, our instructor's forte was Natural History, and he didn't agree with the preservationists as he himself was a conservationist, and defined the differences. However, we never once were informed of human losses in that class. ONLY, the death and deformation of various "earth life forms." That was quite some years ago, I'm glad to see the challenges to that "education" you've linked to today, Rodger. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI had learned abou this atrocity years ago. South American and african countries are begging for DDT but still cannot get it.This is horrific and a great example as how the nuts on the left devalues human life great Article and work Roger.
ReplyDeleteWhat sort of moron could possibly think that a human life is more important than a bird or a fish?
ReplyDeleteYes, that was sarcasm.