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>> On Apr 14, 4:36 am, chemist <tom-bol...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> On Apr 14, 6:05 am, timeOday <timeOday-UNS...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> > The world is getting ever crowded and oil is now more in demand
>>> > and more
>>> > expensive. That leads to rising food prices, even if no crops
>>> > were used
>>> > for biofuels. If we're not careful, we'll soon be living at
>>> > carrying
>>> > capacity again, like every other species on earth. What that
>>> > means is
>>> > the population is controlled by starvation and war.
>>>
>>> > Recklessly depleting the environment until the moment it becomes
>>> > uninhabitable just as the population crests is the instinctual
>>> > thing to
>>> > do, just as foxes will eat all the field mice until they're almost
>>> > all
>>> > gone and the population crashes. That is the last thing we want
>>> > to put
>>> > our descendants through.
>>>
>>> BUT the present Crisis is CAUSED by the fact that Food is
>>> being turned into Fuel to keep SUVs on the road.
>>> Suzuki and Gore will be responsible for more deaths than
>>> all the dictators of the 20th Century, if it carries on.
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>> Why not? Environmentalists have killed over 40 million people by
>> banning insecticides that actually worked.
>
> Cite please.
DDT A Weapon of Mass Survival
May 04, 2006
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194332,00.html
The U.S. Government has finally begun to reverse policy on the
insecticide DDT. Let's hope that this policy ****ft represents the
beginning of the end of what can only be called a crime against
humanity: the decades-old withholding of the world's most effective
anti-malarial weapon from billions of adults and children at risk of
dying from the disease.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) told the
Wa****ngton Times this week (May 3) that it endorses and will fund the
indoor spraying of DDT in sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria kills more than
one million Africans annually, mostly children under five and pregnant
women.
Malaria accounts for 10 percent of Africa's disease burden and causes
$12 billion yearly in lost productivity.
USAID re****tedly will use about 20 percent of its $99 billion budget to
fund indoor spraying with DDT, according to the Times. "Between 1
million and 1.5 million people will be protected," a USAID official told
the Times.
There are, of course, many more millions of Africans that need
protection from the mosquitoes that transmit the parasite that causes
malaria, but USAID's announcement represents a ray of hope compared to
its previous policy which - as characterized by Robert S. Desowitz's
book entitled, Malaria Capers (Norton, 1992) - appeared to be that
people in Third World malarial regions were "better dead than alive and
riotously reproducing."
The policy change is timely given a recent commentary published in the
prestigious medical journal The Lancet (April 25) in which a number of
researchers accuse the World Bank of deception and medical malpractice
in the struggle against malaria.
The researchers charge that the World Bank reneged on its promise to
spend $300 million to $500 million for malaria control in Africa;
concealed the actual amount of its expenditures; reduced its staff of
malaria experts from seven to zero shortly after promising to do more to
fight the disease; published false epidemiological studies to exaggerate
the performance of its projects; and funded clinically obsolete
treatments, against the World Health Organization's advice, for malaria
in India.
Given that the World Bank's defense amounted to "we are committed to
learning from our shortcomings," it seems clear that Africans would be
better off with an effective anti-malarial tool like DDT, rather than
the efforts of pathetically ineffective bureaucrats.
Roadblocks to the lifesaving use of DDT remain - mostly in the form of
the modern environmental movement and its governmental subsidiary known
as the European Union.
"Environmentalists are calling for the elimination of the toxic
chemical, DDT, which is still used in large parts of Africa to combat
malaria," the Voice of America re****ted this week.
The EU recently put this policy into practice, for example, by
threatening to impose a ban on agricultural ex****ts from Uganda if that
nation proceeded with its plan for indoor spraying of DDT, according to
Paul Driessen, senior fellow at the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).
"If the strict controls that should be put in place when DDT is used are
not fully adhered to, and there is a risk of contamination of the food
chain, [it] would not automatically lead to a ban of food products, but
it will mean that that particular consignment cannot be sent to Europe,"
said Tom Vens, an EU official in Uganda.
The Ugandans countered by maintaining that "DDT is not harmful to humans
and if used for indoor-insecticide spraying, it's the most effective and
cheapest way to fight malaria," according to Driessen.
The Ugandans have it right.
There never was any scientific evidence that DDT posed a risk to humans
or wildlife. An EPA administrative law judge said as much after seven
months and 9,000 pages of testimony about DDT in 1972. DDT wasn't
responsible for the decline in bald eagle populations, didn't cause bird
egg shell-thinning and didn't cause cancer in humans, the judge
determined.
DDT was nonethless banned in the U.S. when then-EPA administrator
William Ruckleshaus reversed without explanation the decision of the
judge who actually heard all the DDT testimony - Ruckleshaus heard none
of it and never read any of the transcript. As it was later revealed,
Ruckleshaus was a member of the Audubon Society and raised money for the
Environmental Defense Fund - the two activist groups that led the charge
for the DDT ban.
The fix was in for DDT, as environmental activists subsequently ex****ted
the ban to the rest of the world - with horrific consequences, including
tens of millions killed and billions made ill by malaria over time.
It's time for the malaria tragedy to end. A do***entary by producer D.
Rutledge Taylor, MD entitled, "3 Billion and Counting" - which will take
"an in-depth look at the disease that has killed more people than any
disease ever known" - is in the works and will be released later this
year.
Let's forget the myths about DDT - it's time to stop malaria now.
Steven Milloy publishes JunkScience.com, CSRWatch.com. He is a junk
science expert, an advocate of free enterprise and an adjunct scholar at
the Competitive Enterprise Institute .
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Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"CO2 variations show little correlation with our planet's climate on
long, medium and even short time scales." R. Timothy Patterson,
Professor Of Geology, Director Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Center,
Carleton University, Canada
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