--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
May you wake up in Bombay tomorrow morning and see if you still
want
DDT. It'll smell like they sprayed Detol all over the city.
Apparently to some folks idea of science is tightly bound to
making money.
Like the typical liberal that you are, you don't give a shit how
many millions die because of your silly policies.
If the left's policies to stop global warming are put into effect,
many more millions will die. And, of course, the Left doesn't give
a rat's ass...
shempmcgurk wrote:
http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/summ02/DDT.html
Bring Back DDT, and Science With It!
By Marjorie Mazel Hecht
What DDT Can Do
Banned to Kill People
The Silent Spring Fraud
POPs Convention Is Genocide
Full text of Editorial from Summer 2002 issue
The 1972 U.S. ban on DDT is responsible for a genocide 10 times
larger than that for which we sent Nazis to the gallows at
Nuremberg. It is also responsible for a menticide which has
already
condemned one entire generation to a dark age of anti-science
ignorance, and is now infecting a new one.
The lies and hysteria spread to defend the DDT ban are typical of
the irrationalist, anti-science wave which has virtually
destroyed
rational forms of discourse in our society. If you want to save
scienceand human livesthe fight to bring back DDT, now being
championed by that very electable candidate for the Democratic
Presidential nomination, Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., had better be
at
the top of your agenda.
Sixty million people have died needlessly of malaria, since the
imposition of the 1972 ban on DDT, and hundreds of millions more
have suffered from this debilitating disease. The majority of
those
affected are children. Of the 300 to 500 million new cases of
malaria each year, 200 to 300 million are children, and malaria
now
kills one child every 30 seconds. Ninety percent of the reported
cases of malaria are in Africa, and 40 percent of the world's
population, inhabitants of tropical countries, are threatened by
the
increasing incidence of malaria.
The DDT ban does not only affect tropical nations. In the wake of
the DDT ban, the United States stopped its mosquito control
programs, cutting the budgets for mosquito control and
monitoring.
Exactly as scientists had warned 25 years ago, we are now facing
increases of mosquito-borne killer diseasesWest Nile fever and
dengue, to name the most prominent.
Christopher Sloan
What DDT Can Do
Malaria is a preventable mosquito-borne disease. It can be
controlled by spraying a tiny amount of DDT on the walls of
houses
twice a year. DDT is cheaper than other pesticides, more
effective,
and not harmful to human beings or animals.
Even where mosquito populations have developed resistance to DDT,
it
is more effective (and less problematic) than alternative
chemicals.
The reason is that mosquitoes are repelled by the DDT on house
walls
and do not stay around to bite and infect the inhabitants. This
effect is known as excito-repellency, and has been shown to be
a
dominant way that DDT controls malaria-bearing mosquitoes, in
addition to killing them on contact.1 Studies have demonstrated
this
for all major species of malaria-bearing mosquitoes.
It costs only $1.44 per year to spray one house with DDT. The
more
toxic substitutes cost as much as 10 to 20 times more and require
more frequent applications, making spraying programs
prohibitively
expensive. In addition, replacement pesticides have to be applied
more frequently and are more toxic.
Banned to Kill People
DDT came into use during World War II, and in a very short time
saved more lives and prevented more diseases than any other man-
made
chemical in history. Millions of troops and civilians, in
particular
war refugees, were saved from typhus because one DDT dusting
killed
the body lice that spread that dread disease.
Why was DDT banned, 30 years after its World War II introduction
and
spectacular success in saving lives? The reason was stated
bluntly
by Alexander King, founder of the Malthusian Club of Rome, who
wrote
in a biographical essay in 1990, My chief quarrel with DDT in
hindsight is that it has greatly added to the population
problem.
King was particularly concerned that DDT had dramatically cut the
death rates in the developing sector, and thus increased
population
growth.
As King correctly observed, the incidence of malaria, and its
death
rates, were vastly reduced by DDT spraying. To take one example:
Sri
Lanka (Ceylon) had 2.8 million cases of malaria and more than
12,500
deaths in 1946, before the use of DDT. In 1963, after a large-
scale
spraying campaign, the number of cases fell to 17, and the number
of
deaths fell to 1. But five years after the stop of spraying, in
