In a message dated 4/6/2005 11:41:09 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I denigrate the "rich > white liberals" who made this decision because they're > the people who, consistently, make self-flattering > decisions that (in this case) have led to hundreds of > thousands, maybe millions, of deaths. You're a rich > white liberal. I don't denigrate you. But I'm not > rich, and I'm not white, and (for that matter) I'm not > even liberal. But gee, do ya think maybe I could > honestly identify with the people who die because of > their arrogance and self-righteousness, and not the > people who make the decisions? What, of the many > things you know about me, being the son of immigrants > from India who went to a public school where at least > a third of the students were on welfare, might > _possibly_ incline me to be more sympathetic to poor > people from the Third World dying of malaria than rich > people from the Upper East Side who decided their > deaths were preferable to listening to the scientific > evidence? We identify with different people. Instead > of maligning me, you might try to get outside of your > own head for 30 seconds and see that one. > Incidentally, it's not true that the evidence on DDT > is all that new. In the court case on the subject > conducted in the _1970s_ the judge ruled that DDT was > not a carcinogen. The EPA banned it anyways. I did not mean to denigate you nor did I suggest that the attitudes about DDT are correct. I agree completely that DDT should be used to fight Malaria. I just don't buy the stereotype that current policy is the result of a few rich white liberals who care more about being politically or environmentally correct than saving lives. I know there are people like that but to imply that this is a trait of a specific group is not a useful or meaningful (if we are to change attitudes). Rather I see it as an atttude held by some members of the environmental movement. I was trying to point out the historical perspective for the ban on DDT and its place in beginning of the environmental movement. > > > >By the way, Pedro looked good in his first start for > >the mets. > > Yes, he looked excellent. Let's just hope that he's > rehabbed his shoulder properly. > _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
