Opened Google this morn,
May 27th, and whose birthday is being celebrated?
Liberal icon, Rachel Carson!
For Liberalism, good intentions are what matters- not results. Based on that doctrine, Rachel Carson is perfect as the eco-Liberal version of Mother Teresa.
Millions of human beings are dead due to her influence.
1. "Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologistand conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.....
led to a nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides, and it inspired a grassroots environmental movement that led to the
creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Carson was posthumously awarded thePresidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter."
Rachel Carson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2. “…Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," which in 1962 exposed the hazards of the pesticide DDT, eloquently questioned humanity's faith in technological progress and helped
set the stage for the environmental movementÂ….Silent Spring Â… meticulously described how DDT entered the food chain and accumulated in the fatty tissues of animals, including human beings, and
caused cancer and genetic damage. …Carson concluded that DDT and other pesticides had irrevocably harmed birds and animals and had contaminated the entire world food supply.”
Silent Spring Summary | NRDC
3. Read the above, and apply this explanation to it:
“It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.”
4. On June 14, 1972, ...
.the EPA banned DDT despite considerable evidence of its safety offered in seven months of agency hearings. After listening to that testimony, the EPA's own administrative law judge declared,
"DDT is not a carcinogenic hazard to man...
DDT is not a mutagenic or teratogenic hazard to man...The use of DDT under the regulations involved here
[does] not have a deleterious effect on freshwater fish, estuarine organisms, wild birds or other wildlife."
Today
environmental activists celebrate the EPA's DDT ban as their first great victory. Silent Spring at 40 - Reason.com
a. “The nature of the evidence is irrelevant; it’s the seriousness of the charge that matters.” Tom Foley, Democrat, Former Speaker of the House.
5. British politician Dick Taverne was damning in his criticism of Carson:
Carson didn't seem to take into account
the vital role (DDT) played in controlling the transmission of malaria by killing the mosquitoes that carry the parasite (...) It is the single most effective agent ever developed for saving human life (...)
Rachel Carson is a warning to us all of
the dangers of neglecting the evidence-based approach and the need to weight potential risk against benefit: it can be argued that the anti-DDT campaign she inspired was
responsible for almost as many deaths as some of the worst dictators of the last century. Taverne, Dick (2005). "The Harm That Pressure Groups Can Do".
In Feldman, Stanley; Marks, Vincent. "Panic Nation."
6. Annual worldwide cases of acute illness due to malaria: 300-500 million
Annual worldwide
deaths due to malaria: 1.1-2.7 million, mostly among children under five years of age
http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/documents/GlobalBurdenofMalaria.pdf
a.
Carson’s book was dismissed in ‘Science’ magazine as a “prosecuting attorney’s impassioned plea for action,” not a book based on scientific data.
I.L.Baldwin, “Chemicals and Pests,” Science, September 28, 1962, p.1042-1043.
b.
“Sixty million people have died needlessly of malaria, since the imposition of the 1972 ban on DDT, and hundreds of millions more have suffered from this debilitating disease. The majority of those affected are children.”
Bring Back DDT!
Once again, a danger of Liberalism revealed.
Liberals are impulsive, and imprudent. They believe in quick changes, and risk new abuses worse than the ‘evils’ that they would sweep away....For such individuals, feeling often passes for knowing.
