At 01:42 PM Friday 5/4/2007, Martin Lewis wrote: >On 5/4/07, Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Indeed, Gautam made a good argument here that environmental policy and > > environmentalist claims is a major contributor to the death of 1 > > million/year due to malaria. The US used DDT as part of its elimination of > > malaria. No human deaths were attributed to DDT. Instead, there was an > > extremely strong correlation that, in all likelihood, was due to the DDT > > use, between this use and the drop in the death rate. > > <snip> > > I can't quite tell, what is your exact claim about DDT here? > > Martin
Using it saves human lives. Banning it cost human lives. Banning it says that obviously the eggs of a few raptors in California are more valuable than the lives of myriads of little black human babies in sub-Saharan Africa. -- Ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
