Posted on 08/08/2007 2:04:58 PM PDT by wagglebee
Subscribed to their magazine for 30 years but stopped about 15 years ago when they turned into wackos.
I do not work it pest control, but if you do or have, I guess I can understand your reluctance, here. Afterall, DDT would crimp your margins a little as it is highly effective on almost all insects.
The purpose was to delouse the. I wonder how many died or how many birds were found dead. The ground, every thing around them looked as if some one had blown flour on them.
Just asking.
My parents did too back in the late 80s. They have every issue going back to around 1915 and it’s amazing some of the great stuff they had back then.
Interesting. When we were kids “the fog trucks” would drive up and down the streets spraying for mosquitoes and we would ride our bicycles behind them thinking it was cool to ride in the fog. Now they only spray periodically from helicopters and the stuff they use only seems to make the mosquitoes angry. Mosquitoes are horrid on Long Island.
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Mosquitoes are horrid on Long Island.
Out here I've noticed more coming in the house. I saw one last night who mysteriously ended up in the shower with me today (true! lol) It was him or me. He went to a watery grave :-D
I also quit NG after fifty or so years because they couldn’t wait to find a leftist agenda to promote. Their aim seems to be social engineering instead of accurate reasonable writing. They have been, for years, offering me all kinds of incentives to rejoin. I’m waiting for when they offer to pay me to take their publication. Maybe I’ll consider it then. Interesting to see that they have something now, in this DDT article, that makes sense.
Seems we are more likely to get sick from mosquitoes and the viruses they carry than the fog that used to be sprayed, and the pesticides to kill them off. Given the massive “wetland protection” that environmentalists have gotten mandated, we are in for a rough time with the active or pending West Nile plague.
You can’t use DDT... It wipes out huge populations of animals....
Really?
Again I couldn't disagree more. Rachael Carson never advocated a DDT ban, but selective use where necessary.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson
Carson, however, never actually called for an out-right ban on DDT, instead arguing in Silent Spring that:
No responsible person contends that insect-borne disease should be ignored. The question that has now urgently presented itself is whether it is either wise or responsible to attack the problem by methods that are rapidly making it worse. The world has heard much of the triumphant war against disease through the control of insect vectors of infection, but it has heard little of the other side of the story - the defeats, the short-lived triumphs that now strongly support the alarming view that the insect enemy has been made actually stronger by our efforts. Even worse, we may have destroyed our very means of fighting.[54]
She noted that "Malaria programmes are threatened by resistance among mosquitoes"[55] and emphasized the advice given by the directer of Holland's Plant Protection Service: "Practical advice should be 'Spray as little as you possibly can' rather than 'Spray to the limit of your capacity'…Pressure on the pest population should always be as slight as possible."[56]
Furthermore, experts have argued that restrictions placed on the agricultural use of DDT (something Carson actually did advocate) have increased its effectiveness as tool for battling malaria. Pro-DDT advocate Amir Attaran has said, "The outcome of the treaty [banning DDT's use in agriculture] is arguably better than the status quo…For the first time, there is now an insecticide which is restricted to vector control only, meaning that the selection of resistant mosquitoes will be slower than before."[57] And even Roger Bate, director of Africa Fighting Malaria, has said "A lot of people have used Carson to push their own agendas. We just have to be a little careful when you're talking about someone who died in 1964."[58]
It’s not very easy to prevent malaria, there is not a vaccine for it. When I traveled in the third world, this was in the ‘90’s, maybe some improvements have been made, but then I had to take a preventive medicine, then another pill a month later, and another 6 months later and another a year later. And I did not even have it, that is to prevent catching it. How can you enforce a strict and very expensive regimen like that in Africa? Also, it spreads so easily in squalid and unsanitary conditions. Really, I believe in this instance, targeting the disease-carrying misquitos is the most efficient method, probably the only realistic one.
Yeah really. Bunch of knee jerks.
The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.
Introduction to The Screwtape Letters, rev. ed. 1952
Do an internet search for “Ernest Haeckel” (the fraud who falsified the parallel embroyo pictures) and “eugenics.” Interesting stuff.
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