The legacy of Rachel Carson [her book Silent Spring launched the modern environmentalist movement 51years ago] is that tens of millions of human lives – mostly children in poor, tropical countries – have been traded for the possibility of slightly improved fertility in raptors. This remains one of the monumental human tragedies of the last century." What are the trade offs for American's poor and low income with Obama's new oppressive EPA regulations?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/henrymiller/2012/09/05/rachel-carsons-deadly-fantasies/
http://cei.org/news-releases/new-study-rachel-carson-was-wrong?
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DDT is no panacea and is not always appropriate for every exotic disease, but neither does it kill millions of people every year the way the environmentalists do.
After seeing malaria cases soar when pressure from environmentallists took it off their market in 1996, South Africa has reinstated DDT in its tool box to fight malaria and is again saving lives. http://medicalxpress.com/.../2013-10-south-africa-malaria...
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