"When the last living thing

has died on account of us,

how poetical it would be

if Earth could say,

in a voice floating up

perhaps

from the floor

of the Grand Canyon,

“It is done.”

People did not like it here."

-- Kurt Vonnegut (1923-2007)

DDT Ban did not kill Millions

A couple times when I've posted to message boards about environmentalism, I've been attacked by rabid DDT supporters who have called me a murderer. It's an amazingly distorted look at the DDT ban and the fight against Malaria.

These people blame the spread of malaria on the banning of DDT.

Quite the opposite is true, since DDT continued to see heavy use in India and Sri Lanka, and Malaria increased as mosquitos became resistant. Stories, with supporting REAL science here:

The worst crime of the 20th century. Whodunnit?

This Week in the Unending War on Rachel Carson

 

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