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"HeyBub" wrote:

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being
is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the
moment of conception until death." - Rachel Carson


Ah, yet another pseudo environmentalist-wacko & Obammy-socialist
weights in.

If you're talking about the Rachel Carson quote, she was right. All
mature, educated people are fully aware of the truth of her statement
by now.

Sure, Carson was right about dangerous chemicals in the air. Since time
immemorial, all life has been subject to noxious things in the air: Sulfur
dioxide from volcanoes, extra fine dust from drought conditions, soot from
forest fires. All manner of nasty stuff. On these, Carson was irrefutably
correct.

On DDT, however, Carson was wrong. Criminally wrong. Each year over 800,000
people - mostly children - die from Malaria. Malaria is a disease we know
how to eradicate. We did it in North America. We did it in the Canal Zone.
We haven't done it in Africa because of Rachel Carson.

May her name be erased.

Light actually bends when it goes by Bub. He withholds knowledge, twists
the truth, lies, and when pressed, is actually ignorant.

The Stockholm Convention, which entered into force in 2004, outlawed
several persistent organic pollutants, and restricted the use of DDT to
vector control. The Convention was signed by 98 countries and is
endorsed by most environmental groups. Recognizing that a total
elimination of DDT use in many malaria-prone countries is currently
unfeasible because there are few affordable or effective alternatives,
the public health use of DDT was exempted from the ban until
alternatives are developed. The Malaria Foundation International states
that "The outcome of the treaty is arguably better than the status quo
going into the negotiationsŠFor the first time, there is now an
insecticide which is restricted to vector control only, meaning that the
selection of resistant mosquitoes will be slower than before."[26]

Despite the worldwide ban on agricultural use of DDT, its use in this
context continues in India[27] North Korea, and possibly elsewhere.[11]

"Today, about 4-5,000 tonnes of DDT is used each year for vector
control."

[11] In this context, DDT is applied to the inside walls of homes to
kill or repel mosquitos entering the home. This intervention, called
indoor residual spraying (IRS), greatly reduces environmental damage
compared to the earlier widespread use of DDT in agriculture. It also
reduces the risk of resistance to DDT.[28] This use only requires a
small fraction of that previously used in agriculture; for example, the
amount of DDT that might have been used on 100 acres (0.4*km?) of cotton
during a typical growing season in the U.S. is estimated to be enough to
treat roughly 1,700 homes.[29]

Got that Bub? "About 4-5,000 tonnes of DDT is used each year for vector
control." Now you can return to your gang of geeks at tx.bozos. Because
everyone here knows that you don't.

Idiot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#Sil...d_the_U.S._ban

This is a cite Bub. You should ask Mr. Savage for one. It's like a fig
leaf for your naked stupidity.
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- Billy
"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being
is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the
moment of conception until death." - Rachel Carson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI29wVQN8Go

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072040.html