Rachel Carlson: Guilty of genocide? "Silent Spring" released 45 years ago.
Ever since I can remember, my Dad was complaining about the demise of the pesticide DDT. "There were no mosquitos back then," he still says to this day. He always insisted that the reasons used by the environmentalists to create the near panic that led to its being outlawed was nothing but a bunch of hogwash.*West Nile Virus and Eastern Equine Encephalitus (EEE) were unheard of back then. Malaria was in check - even in the poorest parts of the globe like Africa. How many thousands have died as a direct result of the infamous 1972 ban of DDT?
This September marks the 45th anniversary of the publication of Silent Spring, Rachel Carson's anti-pesticide manifesto credited with inspiring the environmentalist movement.
But this anniversary is no cause for celebration. The legacy of Silent Spring includes more than a million deaths a year from the mosquito-borne disease malaria. Though nearly eradicated decades ago, malaria has resurged with a vengeance because DDT, the most effective agent of mosquito control, has been essentially discarded--discarded based not on scientific concerns about its safety, but on environmental dogma.
Click here to read his entire piece. It not only sums up the history of how it all went down rather nicely in a clear and concise manner, but also undeniably shows the pattern that remains in use to this day by those with radical environmental agendas. Reread the piece and substitute "global warming" for "DDT"-- See how it fits?
Again, from Mr. Lockitch's essay:
[T]he scientific case against DDT was, and still is, nonexistent.
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