At 08:06 PM 5/6/2004 -0700 Doug Pensinger wrote: >http://www.techcentralstation.com/041504I.html > >"Why did Nixon push for a [DDT] ban? We may never know. A few older >Washington DC policy experts have suggested that some of his election >campaign supporters were chemical companies that produced alternatives to >DDT and so stood to gain handsomely by the DDT phase out. Others say that >it is more likely that senior officials in his administration pressured >Nixon into the decision given the potential votes he stood to lose in his >native and very green state of California. But the why of his decision >pales beside what this decision has wrought: two million deaths a year > from malaria alone."
Just imagine if Bush tried lifting the ban on DDT..... JDG
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