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Why all environmentist should hang their head in shame?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/16/MNGKQL6N581.DTL&feed=rss.news
The World Health Organization reversed a 30-year-old policy Friday and declared its support for indoor use of the pesticide DDT to control mosquitoes in regions where malaria is a major health problem.
The Geneva-based WHO, which provides advice to many developing countries, believes the benefits of the long-acting pesticide far outweigh any health or environmental risk it may pose. About 1 million people die each year of malaria, most of them African children younger than 5.
Go read all the articles on this, millions upon millions have died because of faulty science. Why should the Enviro’s not have to pay for their mis-deed? What rights do they have in being the direct cause of slaughting these people, when there was a remendy and extermination of a disease as horrific as marlia? This makes me sick!
Completely different uses of DDT are involved.
When DDT was banned it was being used in huge amounts outdoors. The environmental impact was devastating.
The new information says to use small quantities indoors. Completely different use.
Could the ban have been done smarter, with exceptions made? Sure. But overall it was a good thing, not an occaision for shame. For one thing everyone used DDT, while only a minority of countries have a serious malaria problem. And the vast majority of DDT use at the time of the ban was done in countries that had no malaria problem at all. It’s still unjustified there.
The reference given above for examples of bad science is for a fringe website, well outside the mainstream of science. The author is more political than scientific.
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