Recommendable! This important story about environmentalism gone mad cannot be told often enough! To ban DDT without an effective substitute was reckless, but the victims of malaria were mostly located in poor countries (still true today)! Who cares!
"... Unfortunately, the PBS documentary neglected to mention that in her groundbreaking book, Silent Spring, Carson had made one critical mistake – and it cost millions of people their lives. ... On Sept. 27, 1962, Rachel Carson changed her tone. Her next book, Silent Spring, which she called her “poison book,” was an angry, no-holds-barred polemic against pesticides: especially DDT. The first chapter of Silent Spring, titled “A Fable for Tomorrow,” was almost biblical, appealing to our sense that we had sinned against our Creator. ...
In May 1963, Rachel Carson appeared before the Department of Commerce and asked for a “Pesticide Commission” to regulate the untethered use of DDT. Ten years later, Carson’s “Pesticide Commission” became the Environmental Protection Agency, which immediately banned DDT. ...
In May 1963, Rachel Carson appeared before the Department of Commerce and asked for a “Pesticide Commission” to regulate the untethered use of DDT. Ten years later, Carson’s “Pesticide Commission” became the Environmental Protection Agency, which immediately banned DDT. ...
Although DDT soon became synonymous with poison, the pesticide was an effective weapon in the fight against an infection that has killed – and continues to kill – more people than any other: malaria. By 1960, due largely to DDT, malaria had been eliminated from 11 countries, including the United States. As malaria rates went down, life expectancies went up; as did crop production, land values, and relative wealth. ... Since the mid-1970s, when DDT was eliminated from global eradication efforts, tens of millions of people have died from malaria unnecessarily: most have been children less than five years old. ...
DDT was arguably one of the safer insect repellents ever invented – far safer than many of the pesticides that have taken its place. ...
In 2006, the World Health Organization reinstated DDT as part of its effort to eradicate malaria. ..."
DDT was arguably one of the safer insect repellents ever invented – far safer than many of the pesticides that have taken its place. ...
In 2006, the World Health Organization reinstated DDT as part of its effort to eradicate malaria. ..."
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