A Green Eco-Imperialist Legacy of Death Vea esta página en Español (FAEC)
Since Ruckelshaus arbitrarily and capriciously banned DDT, an estimated cases of malaria have caused
immense suffering and poverty in the developing world.***
Of these largely avoidable cases, people died.****
That exceeds one needless premature death every 12 seconds for more than three decades.
According to the World Health Organisation, 9 out of 10 of these, some victims of fluorescent-green
excess, were likely pregnant women, or children under the age of five. Unborn through five-year-old body counts such as this are certainly difficult to
reconcile with the repetitive green rallying cry of "For The Children." In fact, infanticide on this scale appears without parallel in human
history.***** How is it that Gaia can be painted an Earthmother nurture-figure whilst demanding an annual sacrifice of roughly two million, four hundred and
thirty thousand infants, pending mothers and their untallied unborn? This is not ecology. This is not conservation. This is genocide.
Let's be unequivocal, spraying DDT inside dwellings presents no discernable human or environmental hazard. "Resistance" is not an issue since
this mostly takes the form of avoidance and keeping mosquitoes away from human prey is the intended object anyway. DDT presents no patent issues to upset
anti-globalists/anti-capitalists and, at pennies a pound, DDT is affordable and cost-effective health care for developing nations.
In short, anti-malarial use of DDT allows more healthy populations to work, generate wealth and climb out of the poverty/subsistence hole in which
"caring greens" apparently wish to keep them trapped. DDT bans are not pro-environment - they're anti-human. Worse, they attack impoverished,
developing societies least able to protect themselves.
Since you have been on this page more people have been afflicted by malaria and died of this devastating morbidity, 90% of whom were pregnant women and young children.
* Sweeney EM. EPA Hearing Examiner’s recommendations and findings concerning DDT hearings. 25 April
1972 (40 CFR 164.32) "Malaria map paints stark picture" - "Study suggests the
disease may afflict twice as many people as thought." (Nature)
"Malaria: The long road to a healthy Africa" - "The Nature Outlook
Malaria zeroes in on the major issues in the war on malaria, with a particular focus on Africa. It analyses the current state of affairs, the major
scientific and other obstacles in treatment and control, and the promising areas where substantial progress might be made. Until February 2005 the supplement
will be freely available online." (Nature) Suggested additional resources: DDT FAQ; |