Comments on: And we all know how well the DDT ban worked out http://www.girlontheright.com/2009/02/14/and-we-all-know-how-well-the-ddt-ban-worked-out/ For girls with pearls... Since 2004 Sun, 13 May 2012 10:04:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Steynian 325 « Free Canuckistan! http://www.girlontheright.com/2009/02/14/and-we-all-know-how-well-the-ddt-ban-worked-out/comment-page-1/#comment-4854 Steynian 325 « Free Canuckistan! Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:26:32 +0000 http://girlontheright.com/?p=2850#comment-4854 [...] RIGHT GIRL ..And we all know how well the DDT ban worked out …. [...] [...] RIGHT GIRL ..And we all know how well the DDT ban worked out …. [...]

]]> By: John the Skeptic http://www.girlontheright.com/2009/02/14/and-we-all-know-how-well-the-ddt-ban-worked-out/comment-page-1/#comment-4852 John the Skeptic Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:45:25 +0000 http://girlontheright.com/?p=2850#comment-4852 Let them suffer the hardships so their children will have a "better" planet. Right????... (as if banning DDT wasn't bad enough...) Let them suffer the hardships so their children will have a “better” planet. Right????…
(as if banning DDT wasn’t bad enough…)

]]> By: Fenris Badwulf http://www.girlontheright.com/2009/02/14/and-we-all-know-how-well-the-ddt-ban-worked-out/comment-page-1/#comment-4805 Fenris Badwulf Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:29:52 +0000 http://girlontheright.com/?p=2850#comment-4805 Yhe first commenter, Chris, is right. We can use fuming Chlorine or an aerosol of Cyano-Bromide. Paris Green, remember that stuff? Just waxy flakes of greenish, gritty soap that burned the flesh that it touched. The plants loved it ... all the nasty biting bug-ses--ses dead. So let us turn our backs on science and follow the religion of Global Warming. Yhe first commenter, Chris, is right. We can use fuming Chlorine or an aerosol of Cyano-Bromide. Paris Green, remember that stuff? Just waxy flakes of greenish, gritty soap that burned the flesh that it touched. The plants loved it … all the nasty biting bug-ses–ses dead.

So let us turn our backs on science and follow the religion of Global Warming.

]]> By: Ed Darrell http://www.girlontheright.com/2009/02/14/and-we-all-know-how-well-the-ddt-ban-worked-out/comment-page-1/#comment-4804 Ed Darrell Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:29:36 +0000 http://girlontheright.com/?p=2850#comment-4804 The problem with the DDT "ban" is that it didn't come early enough, nor necessarily where it was most needed. DDT was abandoned for use against mosquitoes in Africa by about 1967 -- three years prior to the ban in Finland, five years prior to the ban in the U.S. DDT was overused on crops in Africa, and mosquitoes became resistant and immune to it. When the bugs eat it for lunch, it's unwise to continue to spend money for the stuff and claim to be helping stop disease, you know? The "ban" on DDT covered broadcast spraying on agricultural crops in the U.S., and included a specific carve out for emergency use against insect vectors in disease epidemics in the U.S. Manufacturing of the stuff continued for about a dozen more years, until the enactment of the Superfund bill. Under that law, pesticide manufacturers are responsible to run clean facilities and not pollute the world. DDT manufacturers were sloppy and couldn't meet the standards (almost every former DDT plant in the U.S. is a Superfund site, costing us billions to clean up). But manufacturing continues today in India in a big way, in China, and Africa, at least. Perhaps other places make the stuff, too. The DDT "ban" saved America's national symbol, the bald eagle. The ban also saved the brown pelican (recently beset with other woes), peregrine falcons, and osprey. The ban allowed the spread of populations of mosquito-eating birds, and saved the Mexican free-tail bat from extinction in the U.S. -- each bat can consume ten times its own weight in disease-carrying mosquitoes each night. Malaria was gone from the U.S. as an epidemic disease by the time DDT came along; without DDT, malaria has stayed on the run, with natural predators working over mosquito populations and better health care stopping the disease in humans. Turns out Rachel Carson was dead right about DDT. So, you're saying that Al Gore is right, too, and it's just the stiff-necked, heart-hardened right wing that keeps us from solving global warming and ending malaria in Africa? You're probably right about that. It's good to see someone on the right swayed by hard facts instead of ungrounded emotion. The problem with the DDT “ban” is that it didn’t come early enough, nor necessarily where it was most needed. DDT was abandoned for use against mosquitoes in Africa by about 1967 — three years prior to the ban in Finland, five years prior to the ban in the U.S. DDT was overused on crops in Africa, and mosquitoes became resistant and immune to it. When the bugs eat it for lunch, it’s unwise to continue to spend money for the stuff and claim to be helping stop disease, you know?

The “ban” on DDT covered broadcast spraying on agricultural crops in the U.S., and included a specific carve out for emergency use against insect vectors in disease epidemics in the U.S. Manufacturing of the stuff continued for about a dozen more years, until the enactment of the Superfund bill. Under that law, pesticide manufacturers are responsible to run clean facilities and not pollute the world. DDT manufacturers were sloppy and couldn’t meet the standards (almost every former DDT plant in the U.S. is a Superfund site, costing us billions to clean up). But manufacturing continues today in India in a big way, in China, and Africa, at least. Perhaps other places make the stuff, too.

The DDT “ban” saved America’s national symbol, the bald eagle. The ban also saved the brown pelican (recently beset with other woes), peregrine falcons, and osprey. The ban allowed the spread of populations of mosquito-eating birds, and saved the Mexican free-tail bat from extinction in the U.S. — each bat can consume ten times its own weight in disease-carrying mosquitoes each night. Malaria was gone from the U.S. as an epidemic disease by the time DDT came along; without DDT, malaria has stayed on the run, with natural predators working over mosquito populations and better health care stopping the disease in humans.

Turns out Rachel Carson was dead right about DDT. So, you’re saying that Al Gore is right, too, and it’s just the stiff-necked, heart-hardened right wing that keeps us from solving global warming and ending malaria in Africa?

You’re probably right about that. It’s good to see someone on the right swayed by hard facts instead of ungrounded emotion.

]]> By: INP http://www.girlontheright.com/2009/02/14/and-we-all-know-how-well-the-ddt-ban-worked-out/comment-page-1/#comment-4803 INP Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:59:52 +0000 http://girlontheright.com/?p=2850#comment-4803 It's not unintended consequences - it's inverse outcome. When the actions of idiots yield the exact opposite of what they intend. http://imnotparanoid.blogspot.com/2006/10/inverse-outcome-definition-of-insanity.html It’s not unintended consequences – it’s inverse outcome. When the actions of idiots yield the exact opposite of what they intend.

http://imnotparanoid.blogspot.com/2006/10/inverse-outcome-definition-of-insanity.html

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