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- MikeCBSMoore, not only have eagles come back, humans are doing better against malaria, without DDT. Nothing Carson claimed has ever been found to be false.
Here, take a look at the 1963 report to President Kennedy, "Use of Pesticides." True then, still true today:
http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/use-of-pesticides-report-of-the-presidents-science-advisory-committee-may-15-1963/ - Reply to this comment
- Factchecker7, malaria is, in 2012, at the lowest level of infection in human history, and kills fewer people than at any time in recorded human history. Much of the progress against malaria has come using the methods Rachel Carson urged in 1962, in the book. Had we listened earlier, perhaps more millions could have been saved.
At peak DDT use, in 1959 and 1960, 4 million people a year died from malaria -- today it's fewer than 800,000 per year. That's a reduction of more than 75%. Is Rachel Carson "accountable" for that? Call the Pope, let's start canonization investigations. - Reply to this comment
- The natural world is a thing of beauty and deep wisdom. And not a big experiment for the demented and immorally minded to go playing with *** everybody else up in de process. It is a thing requiring deep deep understandings! And should be respected as such.. A gift! From de landlord..
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- "Well, I had to genetically engineer a new tree to fight off all the extra CO2 in de atmosphere. How was I to know that plant DNA is even MORE complex than human DNA? And that my genetically engineered frankenstein would make a blight that'd kill off every living plant on the planet earth in 6 months thereby killing every living thing except the cockroaches? I was just trying to help! Sorry!"
Uh-uh. - Reply to this comment
- We have to start looking for natural alternatives. For example, minnows eat mosquitos instead of poisoning the ponds with chemicals. Just about all the natural world is like this. A natural predator. No chemicals.. No gene splicing.. No frankensteins.. Just natural creatures that'll help yaz out.
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- lets see ...
we have natural diseases that kill X number of people
we invent toxic chemicals (rather than look for environmentally and medically safe natural ones) that kill the disease carriers AND poison the environment possibly reducing the number killed by the disease (Y) in the process of poisoning others (Z); the poisons also kill plants and animals that are FOOD for W people starving them (but of course, they live in poor countries, are unimportant) killing so we have either X - Y or X + Z W - Y
Do the math - Reply to this comment
- No, they are dying from malaria; there's absolutely no doubt about that. The last estimate put it at over a million per year in 2005. The world has lost hundreds of millions since the environmental laws were enacted. Unfortunately people and governments tend to over react based on very thin information. I'm scared we'll see this with the Global Warming issue. I think it is very prudent to investigate all environmental issues but people need to also realize that lots of people stand to gain a lot of money from fanning the fears of others. Gore will make an enormous fortune if Global Warming is handled the way that he suggests. His financial investiments alone prove that.
Please people, don't be so ugly to each other! When you start insulting each other it simply proves that you have nothing meaningful to add to the conversation. It makes you look foolish and turns people against your opinion....sleeping with their minister? there's a lot of hate in that person's soul. What a miserable person. - Reply to this comment
- No, they are dying from malaria; there's absolutely no doubt about that. The last estimate put it at over a million per year in 2005. The world has lost hundreds of millions since the environmental laws were enacted. Unfortunately people and governments tend to over react based on very thin information. I'm scared we'll see this with the Global Warming issue. I think it is very prudent to investigate all environmental issues but people need to also realize that lots of people stand to gain a lot of money from fanning the fears of others. Gore will make an enormous fortune if Global Warming is handled the way that he suggests. His financial investiments alone prove that.
Please people, don't be so ugly to each other! When you start insulting each other it simply proves that you have nothing meaningful to add to the conversation. It makes you look foolish and turns people against your opinion....sleeping with their minister? there's a lot of hate in that person's soul. What a miserable person. - Reply to this comment
- First discovered Carson in '89, asking a librarian where I might find an identification of what I'd found on a South Carolina beach. Found Carson's drawing of it, description and purpose. Since then have read extensively about her and by her. She's my Number One heroine.
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- No, they are dying from malaria; there's absolutely no doubt about that. The last estimate put it at over a million per year in 2005. The world has lost hundreds of millions since the environmental laws were enacted. Unfortunately people and governments tend to over react based on very thin information. I'm scared we'll see this with the Global Warming issue. I think it is very prudent to investigate all environmental issues but people need to also realize that lots of people stand to gain a lot of money from fanning the fears of others. Gore will make an enormous fortune if Global Warming is handled the way that he suggests. His financial investiments alone prove that.
Please people, don't be so ugly to each other! When you start insulting each other it simply proves that you have nothing meaningful to add to the conversation. It makes you look foolish and turns people against your opinion....sleeping with their minister? there's a lot of hate in that person's soul. What a miserable person. - Reply to this comment
