[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >In a message dated 6/6/06 2:17:46 P.M. Central Daylight Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > >on 6/6/06 2:01 PM, shempmcgurk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >That's all you've got to say about millions who died as a result of >the environmentalists' successful ban of DDT...that's it's "a >standard retort"? > > >How did these millions die? There was no alternative preferable to DDT? What >would have been the consequences if we had continued to use DDT to “save” >these “millions?” > > > > > >How much DDT would it take to kill every living Mosquito that carried >malaria on earth and how would it impact the rest of life on earth? Some >times >the "cure" can be worse than the "disease". > > > Not to mention that some indigenous populations had a cure for Malaria. It was a tree bark, chinchona from which quinine evolved. When I went to India the tour notes said to wait until arriving their to purchase malaria medicines as what cost about $1 a pill there costs $100 here. However I was there out of mosquito season so it wasn't needed.
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