Re: Re Rachel Carson

On 6/4/2009 6:50 PM, cheapdave@xxxxxxxx wrote [in part]:
Rachel Carson's Ecological Genocide By: Lisa Makson



A pandemic is slaughtering millions, mostly children and pregnant women
-- one child every 15 seconds; 3 million people annually; and over 100
million people since 1972 --but there are no protestors clogging the
streets or media stories about this tragedy. These deaths can be laid at
the doorstep of author Rachel's Carson. Her1962 bestselling book /Silent
Spring/ detailed the alleged "dangers" of the pesticide DDT, which had
practically eliminated malaria. Within ten years, the environmentalist
movement had convinced the powers that be to outlaw DDT. Denied the use
of this cheap, safe and effective pesticide, millions of people --
mostly poor Africans -- have died due to the environmentalist dogma
propounded by Carson's book. Her coterie of admirers at the U.N. and
environmental groups such as Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, the World
Wildlife Fund and the Environmental Defense Fund have managed to bring
malaria and typhus back to sub-Saharan Africa with a vengeance.

Two problems caused the ban on DDT in the US.

First of all, it was having provable negative impacts on the
environment. It caused the shells of bird eggs to become so thin that
brooding parent birds would crack the eggs, leading to the deaths of the
embryo chicks inside. This was happening to birds of prey, which help
control rodents. This was happening to song birds (thus the title of
Carson's book), which control insects -- including the mosquitoes that
spread malaria.

Then it was found that the insects that were the targets of DDT were
beginning to develop resistance to the poison. This required ever
stronger applications of DDT, which in turn prompted even more
resistance in the target insects. The result was similar to the
problems today of resistant bacteria caused by the overuse of
antibiotics; antibiotics that once cured TB no longer have any effect on
some types of TB.

And, no, I'm not some kind of eco-freak or an organic-only gardener. I
use some of the best products of the modern chemical industry in my
garden.

--
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean
Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean
influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19)
Gardening diary at <http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary>
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