[Platt] Don't know about auto accidents but deaths from malaria due to banning of DTD in undeveloped countries can be laid right at the feel of environmental "liberalism."
[Arlo] According to Wikipedia, "As of 2006, DDT continues to be used in other (primarily tropical) countries where mosquito-borne malaria and typhus are serious health problems. Use of DDT in public health to control mosquitoes is primarily done inside buildings and through inclusion in household products and selective spraying; this greatly reduces environmental damage compared to the earlier widespread use of DDT in agriculture." Seems to me a good compromise. Also from Wikipedia, "In the summer of 1972, Ruckelshaus announced a ban on virtually all uses of DDT in the U.S., where it was classified as an EPA Toxicity Class II substance." Wasn't Richard Nixon the president in 1972? Doesn't the President appoint the head of the EPA? Weren't the Republicans in power until 1977? For a more historically balanced account of why and how DDT came to be banned in the US (part of which had to do with a country still gripping with the Republican authorizing of of Agent Orange use in Vietnam... conservative-sponsored chemical warfare left a bad taste in many mouths (pun intended)), see the Wikipedia article. moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
