[tn-bird] Re: DDT NOT BAD, ENVIRONMENTALISTS BAD
- From: "Bill Darnell" <bdarnel3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:59:32 -0500
Aren't the only countries in the world with Malaria still using DDT? This
is just a BS argument! Do we even have any cases of Malaria in the US? DDT
is still the #1 pesticide in countries where Malaria is still rampant!
But, on the other hand, I don't put a lot of stock in Rachel Carson either.
Bill Darnell
Savannah, TN
> Forty years after the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring there
are still those that claim the impacts of DDT to be benign, and the
devastating impacts this chemical had on bird populations to be "bogus".
>
> Troy Ettel
> Nashville, TN
>
> Letters from readers - The Greenville News
> Thursday, August 22, 2002
>
> Environmentalists, not science, obstruct DDT
> As a legislator, I am accustomed to meeting lobbyists. These lobbyists
> represent all sorts of special interests. Pro-life, pro-abortion,
> highways, senior citizens, schools, teachers, superintendents, animal
> rights, drugs, DHEC, insurance, and gamblers just to mention a few.
>
> The alcohol and tobacco industries and their lobbyists are particularly
> strong. These products are responsible for millions of American deaths.
> Yet in South Carolina, these products continue to receive most favored
> product status.
>
> Not coincidentally, the products that cause the most harm are funded at
> the greatest levels. There may be at least one exception to that rule -
> "the mosquito lobby." I must admit that I have not met a member of that
> firm but they are incredibly powerful.
>
> You see, they became active about 30 years ago when they successfully
> lobbied to ban DDT. This was done under the pretense that DDT would harm
> people for which there is zero evidence after 30 more years of study.
> There was circumstantial evidence that bird eggs would be affected, but
> that proved to be bogus as well.
>
> DDT will eradicate mosquito-borne illnesses like malaria and the West
> Nile Virus. When DDT was banned, only 1 percent of the total was being
> used in this country for mosquito control. Isn't it time to reintroduce
> that 1 percent to our environment? The fragility of the environment is
> not the problem. The problem is the fragile brains of the radical left
> who continue to place a greater value on egg shells than they do on
> human life.
>
> Mike Fair
> Greenville
>
> Senator Michael L. Fair
> District 6 - Greenville Co.
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>
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