50 years of bad science being celebrated by the left

Quantum Windbag

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If I had a time machine and the ability to change the past the birth of the environmental movement as the result of "Silent Spring" would top my list of things to fix. The movement has made almost everything worst than it would be if it never existed in the first place.

A half-century ago this summer, Rachel Carlson's Silent Spring began to appear in serialized form in The New Yorker, instilling an awareness of environmental impacts in the very fabric of our culture.
Silent Spring now affects everything we do, buy, eat and wear. It has also shaped how we think about technology in general and pesticides in particular, seeing them at best as necessary evils.
This legacy has yielded both good and bad results. The good is that Silent Spring inspired the creation of federal regulation that subjects pesticides and new technologies to strict scientific scrutiny before they can be commercialized and used.
The bad is that the demonization of agricultural technology obscures the overwhelming environmental fact of our times, that such technology — even pesticides — has been an overwhelming good for the environment and human health.
It is understandable if you had to read that last line twice. It flies in the face of what you were taught as a child, and media perceptions you've heard all of your life shaped by Silent Spring and generations of its imitators.
Ignore "Silent Spring"
 
Ahhhh...the memories

I remember the 60s

Contaminated rivers, wells, putrid air

The Good ole days to Republicans
 
Paper is like the internet. I does not care what you put on it.
Putting something in a book either book does not make it true.
 
Can you imagine how far ahead we would be if our space program would of stayed funded at 1970 levels. At inflation of course.

We would have all the resources of the inter-planets today.

As in, "drill anywhere but here"?

How about we go back in time and snuff out "Gasland"?

That bullshit has killed jobs and stifled potential economic growth while depriving this country of resources we'll never find in the final frontier.
 
Can you imagine how far ahead we would be if our space program would of stayed funded at 1970 levels. At inflation of course.

We would have all the resources of the inter-planets today.

As in, "drill anywhere but here"?

How about we go back in time and snuff out "Gasland"?

That bullshit has killed jobs and stifled potential economic growth while depriving this country of resources we'll never find in the final frontier.

Why did Jeb and GWB keep drilling away from Florida coasts?
 
Can you imagine how far ahead we would be if our space program would of stayed funded at 1970 levels. At inflation of course.

We would have all the resources of the inter-planets today.

As in, "drill anywhere but here"?

How about we go back in time and snuff out "Gasland"?

That bullshit has killed jobs and stifled potential economic growth while depriving this country of resources we'll never find in the final frontier.

Why did Jeb and GWB keep drilling away from Florida coasts?

Good Q. But where are you going with this?
C'mon gimme a hint.
 
Ahhhh...the memories

I remember the 60s

Contaminated rivers, wells, putrid air

The Good ole days to Republicans

Yup, them good ol' days;

Donora Smog of 1948

Between Oct. 26 and 31, 1948, 20 people were asphyxiated and over 7,000 were hospitalized or became ill as the result of severe air pollution over Donora, Washington County, the Monongahela River town of 14,000.
The investigation of this incident by state and federal health officials resulted in the first meaningful federal and state laws to control air pollution and marked the beginning of modern efforts to assess and deal with the health threats from air pollution.

The following articles offer a variety of perspectives on this important event in Pennsylvania’s environmental heritage.
 
Ahhhh...the memories

I remember the 60s

Contaminated rivers, wells, putrid air

The Good ole days to Republicans

And look at all the damage those damned EPA regulations have done.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/us/21river.html?_r=0

CLEVELAND — The first time Gene Roberts fell into the Cuyahoga River, he worried he might die. The year was 1963, and the river was still an open sewer for industrial waste. Walking home, Mr. Roberts smelled so bad that his friends ran to stay upwind of him.

Mark Duncan/Associated Press

A healthier Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, which was known as “The Mistake by the Lake” after the river caught fire in 1969.

Recently, Mr. Roberts returned to the river carrying his fly-fishing rod. In 20 minutes, he caught six smallmouth bass. “It’s a miracle,” said Mr. Roberts, 58. “The river has come back to life.”

Monday is the 40th anniversary of the Cuyahoga River fire of 1969, when oil-soaked debris floating on the river’s surface was ignited, most likely by sparks from a passing train.

The fire was extinguished in 30 minutes and caused just $50,000 in damage. But it became a galvanizing symbol for the environmental movement, one of a handful of disasters that led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and to the passage of the Clean Water Act.
 

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