Disease carrying vermin LOVE Rachel Carson...
Posted on 05/23/2007 8:07:34 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
Rachel Carson honor at risk in Senate
May 23, 2007
WASHINGTON – Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn has effectively blocked a resolution to honor environmental author Rachel Carson on the 100th anniversary of her birth, saying that her warnings about environmental damage have put a stigma on potentially lifesaving pesticides, congressional staffers said yesterday.
Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., had intended to submit a resolution celebrating Carson, author of the 1962 book “Silent Spring,” for her “legacy of scientific rigor coupled with poetic sensibility.” Carson, who died in 1964, would have turned 100 this Sunday.
Cardin has delayed the legislation, a spokeswoman said, because Coburn, a Republican, has signaled that he will use Senate rules to halt it.
The Washington Post
Rachel Carson should be recognized...as a serial killer whose propaganda has resulted in millions of deaths by malaria throughout the third world and other impovershed areas.
Rachel Carson should be recognized in the same company as Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot.
Disease carrying vermin LOVE Rachel Carson...
That’s a little excessive. She should be in the same company with the Global Warmers and Ozone Holers. Algore, that is.
BWWWWAAAAHHHAAAAHHHAAAA!
You go, Senator Coburn!
Very few people in the history of the world have been directly or indirectly responsible for as many deaths as Carson.
I had to read her pile of garbage in 9th grade. Our “Earth Sciences” teacher was a sniveling, whiny, hippie type who tried to fill us full of the early 70’s enviro-whacko agenda. I can still hear her grating voice as she tried to tell us how much danger we were all in from the coming ice age.
Whew! Glad I finally got that off my chest.
No, DogByte was exactly right. The global warming crowd is nut, but nothing that they have done (thus far) has resulted in death. Tens of millions have died because of Carson's book.
Not really.
Millions and millions of people in Third World countries have died from malaria and other diseases due to restrictions on DDT and other pesticides she lobbied for.
Perhaps a better analog for her would be comparing her to Karl Marx or Alfred Rosenberg - while they were not directly responsible for murdering people, they gave intellectual and philosophical justification to others who were murderers.
The difference being that she didn’t intend to kill anyone. She was a misguided idealist. It’s like blaming the people who called for the use of asbestos for eventually causing cancer.
I would put the onus on those who acted. Blame a book, blame an author, but there are plenty of books worse than that one. Now we have Global Warming, which would equally lead to the deaths of millions if believed and acted on. Fortunately there is little action so far.
Actually, it’s not. I believe the death toll from malaria in Africa since the banning of DDT is in the millions. And the Greenies who worship at Rachel Carson’s shrine have enough clout in governments and NGOs to use economic leverage [denial of grants] to prevent governments that want to use DDT to control malaria from doing so.
She didn’t intend to kill anyone. She just didn’t care that her actions would.
When anything bad is being stopped, it’s usually due to Senator Coburn.
He’s the best.
We need more Tom Coburns!
Thank God!
They renamed a Bridge here in Pittsburgh after this phony liar a few years back.
It boggles the mind that someone can lie, cheat and steal, and cause the deaths of countless millions needlessly, and get diefied! This woman, while probably well meaning, was a menace!
A footnote in a history book perhaps, but she sure doesn’t need to be honored by congress.
How many african and poor children have died needlessly because of her and those that followed her lies about DDT?? Oh that’s ok though, because they were just 10s of millions of poor blacks... who gives a damn.
Intellectual and philosophic support is something we don’t need and don’t actually employ. There are any number of intellectual and philosophical positions in books. Those who act bear the responsibility.
As CS Lewis once said, evil people sometimes tire, or become unsure in the midst of their evil acts, but the Do-Gooder, the misguided idealist, such a person is so dedicated, and so sure of themselves that they do not slow down or question themselves. Such people are capable of causing enormous damage.
Lord save us from misguided idealists.
“The road to Hell is paved with good intentions” ping.
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