Gautam wrote:
I was criticizing a movement that has done immeasurable harm to the world's poor, and you kind of jumped in. Fine. But you (I notice) haven't actually agreed with me on what are - I believe - very baseline positions. Use DDT in countries where malaria is endemic. If not, why not? Why don't you feel _outraged_ over the fact that a few rich white people have condemned millions of poor brown people to death from malaria because of their entirely unfounded fears over using DDT - particularly after _they_ used DDT to eradicate malaria from their countries.
Please give credit where it is due. The Republican administration in power at the time DDT was banned was more responsible than any fledgeling environmental movement and in fact the ban could not have taken place had it not been supported by Nixon.
-- Doug
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