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>> "$27 TRILLION to pay for Kyoto" <rander3127@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> On Apr 14, 4:36 am, chemist <tom-bol...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> On Apr 14, 6:05 am, timeOday <timeOday-UNS...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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
Nice hoax article by a tobacco denialist. Too bad it doesn't prove your
case. lol
http://info-pollution.com/ddtban.htm
>
>
>
> 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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