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2004-06-12 -Short Attention Span Theater-

The Malaria Clock: Greenies murder 86 million, mostly children

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Posted by Phil B 2004-06-12 03:59|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 And is there anyone willing to overturn this ban and put DDT back into production? The evidence was there on Day One that DDT was beneficial - and that Ruckelshaus was a fucking idiot - so why hasn't SOME US President directed the EPA to wipe the slate clean?

Why? The phreakin' truth is the phreakin' truth - what's held this up for 31+ years?

This kind of shit makes me crazy. I may run amok or go berserk, heh.

Posted by .com 2004-06-12 4:50:41 AM|| 2004-06-12 4:50:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 But it's brown people in third world countries who get malaria, and they don't understand the danger of DDT to the environment, so we have to protect them from DDT in order to protect their enviroment for them. Malaria is an unfortunate side effect of this, but protecting their environment for them (since they can't possibly understand the importance of this) is all that matters.

(Plus, we live in countries where there is no malaria, so it's not like we're personally affected by the disease. And we're only thinking of their environment. Really.)

/off leftist moonbat trust fund baby mode

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-06-12 11:01:01 AM|| 2004-06-12 11:01:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 a single brown child dead is a tragedy. 86 million is a statistic

(/EcoStalinist off)

Posted by Frank G 2004-06-12 11:10:09 AM|| 2004-06-12 11:10:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 DDT has some problems. The first is that it doesn't break down easily at all. Samples that have been exposed to the big degraders: UV light, water, wind and heat are still active 25 years later *or more*. Second problem is that DDT is not just specific to insects, it also kills crustaceans--so if you like lobster and shrimp, DDT is a no go.
Third is that insects develop quick resistance to it, just like with less toxic, and less specific pesticides.
So, bottom line, while DDT was *great* in its time, times have changed. Better technologies are needed.

Posted by Anonymoose 2004-06-12 11:34:26 AM|| 2004-06-12 11:34:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I hate to be the voice of cold reason BUT if the 86 million children had not died of malaria, they would have died from famine or from AIDS or from internecine machete duels. Let's be honest here. The African parents who are having kids by the dozen, when they cannot even support and care for their adult selves, are the ones who should be blamed for childrens' deaths, not the Greenies. Malaria may have taken these 86 million starving African children faster and with less prolonged suffering.

Posted by rex 2004-06-12 12:51:39 PM|| 2004-06-12 12:51:39 PM|| Front Page Top

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