--- Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because DDT thins birds' egg shells. The biggest > reason bald eagles are > endangered is DDT -- it thinned the birds' shells so > drastically that > many embryos never survived to full development. > > Is that a sufficient reason?
Well, first, no, it's not a sufficient reason. Not at all. But, second, it's _not even true_. Bald eagles _aren't_ endangered. They're actually a _pest_ in parts of Alaska, there are so many of them. DDT used for malarial prevention - indoor spraying, daubing on the walls of homes, and DDT -implanted mosquito nets - doesn't even get out into the environment, much less pose a threat. Despite this, we see continuing attacks on its use: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/DDAD-699MXX?OpenDocument describes the EU threatening to ban exports of foods from countries where DDT-spraying is used. Funny, btw, how the same countries keep cropping up over and over again, the ones that it's so horrible the US is opposed by. Hmm. Tina Rosenberg has a good article on the topic: http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/ontheside/news/ddt_nytimes0404.pdf There's also a good article in The Washington Monthly on the topic: http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/15599/ Finally, Warren, as usual you rant about Iraq. Have you been paying attention to what's happening over there? You know, the successful election, the formation of a government with a Kurdish President, things like that. If Iraq does end up as a stable democracy - and the odds of that are higher than they have ever been in all of Iraqi history - are you going to come back and admit that those evil neoconservatives destroyed one of the vilest governments on earth and replaced it with something pretty good _while you did everything you could to stop it from happening_? Who, in that equation, will have been looking out for poor, brown people who are far away? Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger Show us what our next emoticon should look like. Join the fun. http://www.advision.webevents.yahoo.com/emoticontest _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
