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Rajjpuut's Folly on Monday, July 06, 2009 7:36:19 PM
Banning DDT is considered "The Greatest Environmental Success-Story of All Time."
Outlawing DDT has killed more than fifty million people making a once-controlled disease (forty-five thousand CASES annually) blossom into one of the world’s big killers again (more than two million DEATHS annually)
"Silent Spring": Rachel Carson's Book Kills Two Million Yearly**
Two score and seven years ago, a pretty good writer named Rachel Carson wrote a book called “Silent Spring.” Like all environmental manifestos of its day and virtually all today, "Silent Spring" was long on potential problems (amounting to the "probable" catastrophe when future springs are silent, because no birdsongs could be heard, all birds being dead; and even possible deleterious effects on humans) and potential benefits and amounted to a call for action which some have credited/blamed for the environmental movement itself.
Her most vehement words were attacks on DDT, the mosquito killer. To date: DDT legislation is considered by environmentalists “their greatest success.” Like all liberal boondoggles, however, the emphasis, nay 100% attention is paid to immediate results and 0% consideration is given to actual cost here and now and long-term. This should not be surprising because this is the liberal legacy: leap now, look later. Instead of seeing that the "benefits" of government spending, for example, always come at the cost of higher taxes and roughly 25% waste over whatever similar private endeavor would cost . . . liberals persist in believing "this one's a no-brainer: free lunch!" DDT removal, however was clearly well-thought out by the environmental contigent. Look at the incredible benefits . . . .
Ms. Carson and the environmentalists will be glad to know that they've outdone Hitler and Stalin. Outlawing DDT has killed more than fifty million people making a once-controlled disease, malaria, (forty-five thousand CASES annually) blossom into one of the world’s big killers again (more than two million DEATHS annually). That, of course is the big benefit which environmentalists can proudly point to. Those 50 million deaths have dramatically reduced the stress on Mother Earth and that combined with the elimination of the progeny those fifty million would have produced has produced a beneficial ripple effect that's probably reduced the world’s carbon footprinting by almost as much as Ted Kennedy and Al Gore together create on a three-day weekend. If only they could find a way to bring back polio and smallpox and wipe out another 86% of cursed humanity so the birds can chirp to their little hearts content.
Then again, Carson should have reawakened humanity to the great legacies of environmental heroes like Hitler, Stalin and Tojo, etc. By removing so much of troublesome humanity (and let's not forget their even more troublesome progeny) they've helped in their own small way (in comparison to Carson herself) to keep much of our earth pristine and Edenlike. Shame on all those Jews declaiming the Holocaust, can't they see that Hitler was just a first-class environmentalist, a great benefactor before his time?
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
** thanks to U.N. involvement, and pressure from the U.S. (don't ban DDT? no American Aid for you) DDT has virtually disappeared from use. Carson's suspicions that DDT was a carcinogen (cancer-causer) were proved groundless, DDT was called "so safe you could season^^ your salad with it." DDT's various replacements are far less effective, far more expensive, and far more dangerous to handle. Banning DDT brought Parathion on the scene and at first thousands of workers were made sick and some died because they'd been used to handly the non-toxic (to humans) DDT. If I walk across a forest floor, I'm sure to kill all manner of insects and microbes . . . there is a price for every action: the logical question environmentalist never want to ask is "what is the cost versus the benefit?" Yes, humans need to be good stewards of the planet and No, it's never wise to crap in your own nest . . . but humankind-first thinking has to prevail over anti-human actions, especially expensive anti-human actions that purport to rescue Prebel's Mice, Anopheles Mosquitoes, Snail Darters (tiny fish), or Spotted Owls, etc.
Not afraid to put his mouth where his moxie was, Edwards took to swallowing a tablespoon of DDT on stage before every lecture on the subject. In September 1971, Esquire magazine pictured Edwards doing just that. The accompanying text explained that Edwards had "eaten 200 times the normal human
intake of DDT." He did not even consider this gesture risky. In the one year of 1959, for instance, unprotected workmen had applied 60,000 tons of DDT to the inside walls of 100 million houses. Neither the 130,000 workmen or the 535 million people living in the sprayed houses had experienced any adverse effects.
Rajjpuut thought of titlng the piece "endangered malaria" makes comeback . . . not sure why he didn't. One things for sure: the reason ELF and other "eco-terrorists" receive contributions from all the "legitimate moderate" green organizations is because the prime drive of environmentalism is the destruction of troublesome mankind, these people don't like themselves and hate everybody else as a result in Rajjpuut's not-so-humble opinion.