[Andre Jute[_2_]]

On Dec 10, 9:18*pm, Chalo wrote:

When my mom was a kid in East Texas, the DDT truck would come down the
street, spraying as it went, to exterminate the insect life in
roadside ditches. *The kids rode along behind on their bicycles,
enjoying the cool mist and bug-free zone.

And what? Nobody ever got cancer from DDT.

That's where these folk's heads are at. *That's how they used the
stuff, when it was possible for them to use it.

So what, Chalo? You're still labouring under the old myth that DDT
caused cancer. Not a single case was ever proven.

You'll notice that anti-environmentalists' compassion for the poor
malaria-stricken people of the world does not extend so far as to
develop and use mosquito-specific biological countermeasures,
effective but environmentally non-persistent alternatives to DDT, or
anything like that. *

Wow! The people who pressurized politicans into banning DDT committed
a monstrous genocide, but now they want to blame those who predicted
their crime for not, somehow, by magic perhaps, having saved all those
poor wretches that the DDT-banners were killing by starvation and
malaria, hundreds of millions of them over the intervening decades.

They just like to whine about environmentalists
choosing birds, fish, and cats over cancer, extinctions, diabetes, and
DDT-resistant skeeters.

Prove a single instance of cancer, a single instance of diabetes, a
single extinction caused by diabetes. As for bugs building up
resistance, so what, it happens, then you alter the formula and they
die again. That's about the stupidest argument I've ever heard, the
equivalent of saying we should stop all work on pesticides because
bugs will develop immunity. Yo, pal, you might get out in nature a
little more often and discover that bugs have already developed
immunity to a whole lot of natural poisons, and countermeasures to
predators -- it is called evolution, and it is what will eventually
evolve man out of existence.

The big irony is that DDT wasn't even banned for green reasons, it was
explicit among the leaders of the campaign that it was a test case to
demonstrate their political muscle. Their little demonstration has so
far cost about 220 million lives, and anybody who today supports the
continued banning of DDT is complicit in that continuing genocide.

Andre Jute
Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live -- Mark Twain