Not evil, just wrong

Robinto

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A new feature documentary film, "Not Evil, Just Wrong" is taking on global warming and warns that rushing to judgment in combating climate change would threaten the world's poor.
On April 22, the directors will hold a public showing of their film at the Rachel Carson Elementary School in the suburbs of Seattle.
Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring” helped convince the world that pesticides like DDT would lead to a “silent world,” a wasteland devoid of birds and bees, and ultimately of “tree museums.” Thanks to DDT junk science, which is now being reevaluated, millions of people have died of Malaria, which DDT had almost eradicated.
I’ll repeat that, if you don’t mind. Millions of people have died from a disease that had had once been almost entirely eradicated by DDT, and has since made a stunning and deadly comeback.
Proving the maxim that, “Even a stopped clock is right twice a day,” the UN agency WHO is mandating a relaxation of the worldwide ban on the pesticide DDT.
Watch a clip at noteviljustwrong.com
 
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Robinto said:
Proving the maxim that, “Even a stopped clock is right twice a day,” the UN agency WHO is mandating a relaxation of the worldwide ban on the pesticide DDT.
Watch a clip at noteviljustwrong.com
You do realize that the only reason that the UN lifted the ban on DDT is because of the bedbug crisis in NYC. It was DDT that eradicated bedbugs in North America. Now that they are back and there is nothing to combat them; suddenly miraculously DDT is back.

It is not when the poor die that things change. It is when the very rich are inconvenienced that things change.

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Hard Idle

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Who cares why it's back. I just want my DDT by any means. Hopefully some place with common sense like China or Iran will keep pumping out grey market DDT and run covert smuggling operations - perhaps concealing it in DVD boxes or counterfeit watch cases. Oh please rouge nations, stand between us and the tyranny of the bearded hermits.
 

Aardvark154

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It likely is only going to be available to licensed applicators and under stringent conditions. There is no question that DDT is a bioaccumulator and has devastating impacts on birds.
 

Rockslinger

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Yup, this is called the "Law of Unintended Consequences". For every action. there is a reaction or many reactions and not all of them can be foreseen in advance.

Take Lysol for example. We keep our homes so neat and clean that our children's immune systems are compromised because there are no germs to fight. The unintended consequence is asthma in our kids.
 
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