Quoting Arlo Bensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [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.
After millions died. > 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? Nixon, Rockefeller and the like were liberals in disguise. One must distinguish between conservatives (the less government, the better) and the Republican Party. > 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. Liberal Kennedy got us into Vietnam, liberal Johnson expanded the war and authorized use of Agent Orange, continued by liberal Nixon. What that has to do with DDT I haven't the faintest notion. A complete reading of the Wikipedia article shows there is still debate among scientists as to DDT effects on humans and the environment, much like the current debate about global warming. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ 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/
