Children Die When 'Eco-Lies' Disrupt the War Against Mosquitoes The devastating legacy of Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring."

frontpagemag.com ^ | 7/18/2022 | Vijay Jayaraj

[dljordan]

I remember chasing the DDT Jeep and playing in the fog. That was the 50s.

[D Rider]

Banning the use of DDT specifically targets brown skinned children... just pointing out an obvious fact.

[Tell It Right]

I've read about Rachel Carson being a eugenicist off and on for years (showing my age). Just Braving it now I found: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/environmentalisms-racist-history.

[chickenlips]

So many people have suffered and died needlessly by banning a safe and effective product.

Despite almost all of what Rachel Carson wrote being debunked soon after “Silent Spring” was published, she gained huge fame from the book and lived comfortably in her nice suburban home in wealthy Montgomery County MD, while millions suffered and died in the third world from malaria.

Two good articles here:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2007/05/rachel_carson_and_the_deaths_o.html

https://junkscience.com/100-things-you-should-know-about-ddt/

[rktman]

Thanks. Bet the kiddos don’t hear any mention of that in school.

[SamAdams76]

They used to fog for skeeters with DDT. We would ride our bikes through the poisonous plumes. There haven’t been any side effects so far.

I had a similar experience growing up back in the 1970s. Right around the time school let out for the summer, our city would send fog trucks through the neighborhoods spraying for mosquitoes with DDT. In fact, I can still remember the smell.

It worked too. We could sit out on our porches at night and play in the yards without getting chewed up by those infernal things. Of course, they shut those down long ago, the result being that going out into your yard to cook some hamburgers is like going into the deep woods of New Hampshire. Everybody is slapping themselves silly and hankering to get back indoors.

[bruoz]

Same here. Went to Dale Mabry Elementary.

[Louis Foxwell]

Mothers in Appalachia dosed their children with a teaspoon of DDT to kill worms in their gut. A song from the period, up until the mid 60’s was: “Ain’t no flies on Jesus ‘cause He’s sprayed with DDT!” It was widely considered a salvation pesticide. Harmless and cheap.
Lyndon Johnson had it banned as a sop to the enviro crowd, especially the racist Carson to assuage racists who opposed Civil Rights laws. This insured the death of minority children. That same racist policy persists to today with the same evil results.

[Carriage Hill]

We did that too, back in the 50s.

[packrat35]

Rachel Carson has been responsible for 250,000,000 deaths. She leads the pack in death responsibility and it grows EVERY SINGLE YEAR>

[rktman]

Tony faunocchio say “Hold my chablis!”

[packrat35]

11. Population control advocates blamed DDT for increasing third world population. In the 1960s, World Health Organization authorities believed there was no alternative to the overpopulation problem but to assure than up to 40 percent of the children in poor nations would die of malaria. As an official of the Agency for International Development stated, “Rather dead than alive and riotously reproducing.” [Desowitz, RS. 1992. Malaria Capers, W.W. Norton & Company]

[packrat35]

He ain’t no where close to 250 million deaths yet.

[rktman]

Glad you added “yet”. Of course rachel has a few years lead so.............

[Paal Gulli]

Like a bunch of you guys, I would run down the street chasing after “the bug man” along with most of the other kids on my street. But that isn’t the most important bit. The most important bit is that that stuff settled everywhere. Everybody in my town lived in that stuff all summer long. And if there were any adverse effects from it, we never got wind of it.

Now mosquito-borne diseases are the single leading cause of premature death on the planet.