When Environmental Activists Kill

Posted on February 2, 2007 by nuke

Millions of deaths (mostly women and children)

Illness (billions sickened), and poverty (over a trillion dollars in lost GDP, and counting).

Who is responsible for this decades-long catastrophe, and will the perpetrators be held responsible?

Last week’s announcement that the World Health Organization lifted its nearly 30-year ban on the insecticide DDT is perhaps the most promising development in global public health since… well, 1943 when DDT was first used to combat insect-borne diseases like typhus and malaria…..

carson.jpgRachel Carson kicked-off DDT hysteria with her pseudo-scientific 1962 book, “Silent Spring.” Carson materially misrepresented DDT science in order to advance her anti-pesticide agenda. Today she is hailed as having launched the global environmental movement. A Pennsylvania state office building, Maryland elementary school, Pittsburgh bridge and a Maryland state park are named for her. The Smithsonian Institution commemorates her work against DDT. She was even honored with a 1981 U.S. postage stamp. Next year will be the 100th anniversary of her birth. Many celebrations are being planned.

It’s quite a tribute for someone who was so dead wrong. At the very least, her name should be removed from public property and there should be no government-sponsored honors of Carson.

[snip]Business are often held liable and forced to pay monetary damages for defective products and false statements. Why shouldn’t the National Audubon Society, Environmental Defense, Sierra Club and other anti-DDT activist groups be held liable for the harm caused by their recklessly defective activism?

It was, of course, then-Environmental Protection Agency administrator William Ruckelshaus who actually banned DDT after ignoring an EPA administrative law judge’s ruling that there was no evidence indicating that DDT posed any sort of threat to human health or the environment. Ruckleshaus never attended any of the agency’s hearings on DDT. He didn’t read the hearing transcripts and refused to explain his decision.

None of this is surprising given that, in a May 22, 1971, speech before the Wisconsin Audubon Society, Ruckleshaus said that EPA procedures had been streamlined so that DDT could be banned. Ruckleshaus was also a member of — and wrote fundraising letters for — the EDF. source

If the EDF rings a bell, here is a memory-refreshing previous post regarding the Rockefeller-Snowe extortion letter on global warming to ExxonMobil, and the subsequent visitors our website had from the possible authors of that missive, the very same EDF. Hysterical clamoring for governmental action based on incomplete scientific evidence, and effectively shouting down all opposing viewpoints by arrogantly claiming that “the debate is over” stinks to high Heaven. And in the case of the ban on DDT, is in my opinion, criminally negligent as well.

 

Update: IPCC–we’re dooooooomed

BBC: The Beeb’s story seems to be operating under the misapprehension this is equivalent to the release of IPCC Working Group I Contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis — this is regrettably neither true nor even close to the truth. JS(Milloy)

ipcc, pdf

Angel wants a hug

Beth is modeling a healthy self image

Pierre B-slaps Steve Schroeder and Big News

Leftist smear job

 

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23 Responses

  1. SwampWoman, on February 2, 2007 at 1:36 am said:

    Depends. If the agenda was population control (which I believe that it was) rather than disease and insect control, then removing DDT from the environment worked very, very well.

  2. nuke, on February 2, 2007 at 1:44 am said:

    If you’re right, that’s one dang sinister bunch of people, and I use the term people loosely.

  3. SwampWoman, on February 2, 2007 at 1:48 am said:

    Global warming is more of the same ol’ same ol’. Have they ever considered what will happen to the people that the green revolution kept from starving when/if all the corn is diverted into ethanol production and inflated fuel prices drive up the cost of farmed foods? Oh, right, the little people can all become agrarian organic farmers :roll:

  4. nuke, on February 2, 2007 at 2:24 am said:

    One man’s tortilla is another mans’s alternative energy source
    people’s cube link

  5. Angel, on February 2, 2007 at 9:14 am said:

    Thanks Nuke, Swampwoman and Vitmo for stoppin by at my ever so humble abode and those hugs..lol…Have a peaceful weekend y’all and stay outta truble y’hear!..lol

    thanks for the sweet link Nukester!
    btw..very important post as well…the tree huggers have radicalized so much in this country its frightening..sigh

  6. Angel, on February 2, 2007 at 9:15 am said:

    oh gosh I left a really longggggggggg comment ..where did it go?..lol

  7. SwampWoman, on February 2, 2007 at 9:38 am said:

    I have never been good at the “one mans x is another man’s y” manner of debate; i.e. one man’s cat is another man’s duck. One man’s dog is another man’s possum. One man’s ball-point pen is another man’s air compressor.

  8. SwampWoman, on February 2, 2007 at 9:53 am said:

    The BBC news report says that “an influential group of scientists has concluded”. No influential scientists were cited, just people that sucked from the public teat. And the dubiously generated data that they didn’t know what to do with, well, they just left that out. I can just imagine a CFO of a large publicly traded corporation telling the SEC that “well, yeah, we had lots and lots of numbers but since we didn’t know what they meant, we just left the ones out of the financial report that didn’t support our point of view that the company was making a profit.”

  9. SwampWoman, on February 2, 2007 at 10:01 am said:

    Meanwhile, some data courtesy of InstaPundit: Pounds of CO2 generated per hour by private jets. I agree with the InstaPundit here from whence this information came: If those lameass warming whiners were at all serious about global warming, they’d be traveling around the world via sailboat. But noooooo. They want ME to make all the sacrifices. Well, screw that.

  11. nuke, on February 2, 2007 at 10:14 am said:

    one man’s car is another man’s co2 generator

  12. SwampWoman, on February 2, 2007 at 10:54 am said:

    One man’s car is another man’s deep fried peanut butter and nanner samwich.

  13. Mick, on February 2, 2007 at 12:23 pm said:

    This is a wonderful example of how wrong the “global warming crisis” and environmentally retarded the left is.

  14. nuke, on February 2, 2007 at 12:31 pm said:

    one man’s deep fried pb&n sammich ………mmmmmmmmmmm pb&n

  15. SwampWoman, on February 2, 2007 at 2:57 pm said:

    Nah. MMMMMMmmmmmm is a pulled pork sammich on BBQ bread or Texas toast.

  16. SwampWoman, on February 2, 2007 at 2:57 pm said:

    And fetch me some sweet tea, willya?

  17. nuke, on February 2, 2007 at 4:44 pm said:

    smile when you say that

  18. coz, on February 2, 2007 at 5:04 pm said:

    Nuke, Swampie, No2Libs, and all, have a GREAT weekend!!! and GO BEARS!!

  19. SwampWoman, on February 2, 2007 at 5:14 pm said:

    G’night, Coz! Da Bears!

  20. SwampWoman, on February 2, 2007 at 5:15 pm said:

    Here’s sumpin interesting re Teheran and Israel.

  21. SwampWoman, on February 2, 2007 at 5:19 pm said:

    And also found at Jules Crittendon was this link to Dadmanly and All roads lead to Iran

  22. Mick, on February 2, 2007 at 5:24 pm said:

    It’s “Da Bearrrrs” all the way!

  23. Nuke’s News and Views » Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts?, on August 9, 2007 at 11:45 pm said:

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