Compassionate Environmentalism

I would like to talk to you about how the environmental Leftists like Al Gore and countless others support a world wide ban on DDT. A defacto- world wide Ban was enacted in the seventies despite the EPA's own findings that the Chemical posed no threat to anything save the deadly mosquitoes. But now some have taken to fighting to keep some countries from using the product in benign interior applications, despite there being no affordable or equally effective alternative.

When I decided to write about this subject regarding the millions of malarial victims in underdeveloped countries, I first wanted to call it 'African Genocide', because that is exactly what the White House has recently begun to call it. If the prevalence of Malaria is genocide who are the perpetrators of it? Well at first thought one might say it is the fault of mosquitoes, huhh....sounds logical right? Well not quite!

The perps in this genocide are those very same Leftists here and abroad who seek to dismantle our economy, wreck our families, and enact population control all in the name of compassionate environmentalism.

See it all started back in the 60's when the use of DDT (Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane) had completely wiped out the Malaria epidemic in America, Canada and other nations. Many other countries especially in Africa could not sustain the cost of the program.

In Uganda for example, the trial treatment using DDT resulted in reducing Malaria by 98%. Yet investors realizing that a poor Uganda could not sustain a market...... turned their back on the program, leaving them unable to help themselves.

Some countries who could afford it, also began to use it on open fields, crops and swamp land. This broadcast and aerial treatment of DDT alarmed the burgeoning environmental movement, a faction just beginning to realize the power to legislate their own kind of morality.

When some of these future Gore followers set out to stop this terrible and barbaric slaughter of helpless bloodsuckers (no doubt there was a kinship there). One of their stormtroopers was Rachel Carson who wrote a book in 1962 titled, 'Silent Spring'.

The book claimed the chemical DDT, which was widely used to fight the mosquito-borne disease malaria, would eventually cause a world where no birds sing and where natural waterways would become rivers of death.

She was wrong, dead wrong! Her so called evidence was, as Al Gore says of Global Warming, coming in the near future. Well, it has been 45 years since the release of her biased doom and gloom propaganda publication, and we do not see the piles of dead birds or the flowing rivers of death due to the decades of prior DDT use.

We do, however, see millions of people dying of Malaria every year. More than ten Million people are diagnosed with Malaria in Uganda every year. An average of more than 100,000 Ugandans, men women and precious children succumb to the disease and die. The World Health Organization says that there are more deaths world wide from Malaria each year than the population of America...and that in Africa, someone (like the baby pictured)dies of Malaria every thirty seconds!

Yet the Compassionate Environmentalists ignore the undeniable disease, disability and death tolls that their anti-DDT policies have wreaked in Africa and other Malaria-endemic regions.

Even after the 'Silent Spring' uproar, extensive hearings on DDT before an EPA administrative law judge occurred during 1971-1972. The EPA hearing examiner, Judge Edmund Sweeney, concluded that “DDT is not a carcinogenic hazard to man .... DDT is not a mutagenic or teratogenic hazard to man .... The use of DDT under the regulations involved here does not have a deleterious effect on freshwater fish, wild birds or other wildlife.”

Overruling the EPA hearing examiner, EPA Administrator William Ruckelshaus banned DDT in 1972. Ruckelshaus never attended a single hour of the seven months of EPA hearings on DDT. His aides reported that he did not even read the transcript of the EPA hearings on DDT. Just like most of his brethren on the far left the EPA administrator did not care about the facts, all he and they were concerned about was forwarding their agenda.

If they were intellectually honest, leftists today would realize the terrible mistake Carson made and fight to fix what she and the Nixon administration broke. They would want to stop the needless slaughter. The fact that more people have died of malaria since Carson's book than died at the hands of Hitler, would make them so angry they would seek to make amends immediately. However, that has not been the case.

People like John Kerry praise Carson. He and his stunningly attractive wife wrote in their new book, "Her research was exact, her approach precise." and our favorite enviro-Viper Al Gore, who wrote the introduction to the 1994 reproduction of 'Silent Spring', said Carson inspired him to write his book 'Earth in the balance'. He continued to say of Carson, "She had checked and re- checked every paragraph in "Silent Spring," and the passing years have revealed that her warnings were, if anything, understated."

Understated! That's right, her warnings were understated! So where is the mountain of dead birds and the rivers flowing with death? I see none.... but where are the dead children and the parents who care for them? They are increased exponentially every day people continue to flap their lips and use pseudo-utilitarianism as an excuse to sit by and watch innocence die.

In a recent "Wall Street Journal" op-ed, entitled "Give us DDT," a must read!! the director general of Health Services for the Republic of Uganda made an impassioned plea to environmentalists in the U.S. to stop blocking DDT from getting to Uganda.

He said, quote, "After decades of exhausted scientific review, DDT has been shown to not only to be safe for humans and the environment, but also the single most effective anti-malarial agent ever invented. Environmental leaders must join the 21st century, acknowledge the mistake Carson made and balance the hypothetical risks of DDT with the real devastating consequences of malaria."

In a best-case scenario Rachel Carson may have hypothetically saved some birds, but the worse-case scenario came true and millions of people have died from a preventable disease! Sorry Ms. Carson, but I think I would prefer a few dead birds and hundreds of Millions of people alive, call me an evil denier but that's my take!

It seems to most people only common sense reveals the answer to this problem! Unfortunately, it would seem those on the environmental left have no common sense.
But I don't believe that to be the case. There is something even more nefarious here than just a lack of common sense or understanding.

I believe these people know exactly what they are doing. They know perfectly well that 2.2 Billion people are at risk of Malaria from mosquitoes every year.

They know that since I started talking to you more than four babies lost their battle with malaria! Yet it changes nothing for them.

They know Scientists who study malaria have shown through extensive research and field work that DDT can repel and prevent entry of as much as 95-97% of mosquitoes that would otherwise enter the house and potentially spread malaria.

They know that major scientists who studied the chemical in 1972 and since agree that DDT has NO documentable negative effect on People, plants or animals, yet they remain steadfast in their blockage of DDT.

They know that the most recent review by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences also admits that NO proof exists that DDT harms humans in ANYWAY! Yet they continue to lobby against it.

They Know that indoor residual spraying with DDT reduced malaria cases and deaths by nearly 75 percent in Zambia over a two-year period – and by over 80 percent in South Africa in just one year and that virtually no chemical is released into the environment.

These environmental totalitarians choose birds over little boys and girls, in a false dichotomy that requires the sacrifice of neither. They advocate for America and others to develop and distribute vaccines, bed nets and treatment drugs, plus the implementation of sanitation and other programs. But these half-measure interventions will likely take decades to work, if they ever do – all the while malaria will needlessly slaughter millions more people, who would live if their countries could acquire and deploy DDT and other pesticides.

Yet they continue lobbies to hamstring nations who, as part of the G8, just committed to do more in the fight against malaria.

Scientists have proven through tests I described earlier, that near complete eradication of Malaria can be achieved by just treating inside individual homes.
Yet Compassionate Environmentalists hold fast to their positions....... why?

So what are these dire risks Enviro-Nutburgers believe are posed by DDT? So far the only adverse affects claimed is that the egg shells of some Raptors are thinning. However they offer no scientific proof. That's right!!!!Even this one claim against DDT has not been conclusively demonstrated.

So why, if they are fully aware that their stance causes death in mass numbers do these people on the left continue to fight? If they now know that the risks to people, plants, animals and the environment is minimal and that the risks associated with non-DDT treatments result in human deaths, why don't they just give in and support non-harmful surface treatment of dwellings?

It's simple,
Because they know if they lose this fight they will forfeit some of their authority. Authority much needed in the fight to force Global Warming down our preverbal throats. Just like any totalitarian entity the enviro-Nazis only enjoy total control if their decisions are never challenged or overthrown.

So they say people like you and I are either ignorant of the true danger posed by DDT or we are in bed with pharmaceutical and Chemical companies.
The truth is that not only do these snakes seek to ban DDT for power reasons but many have other reasons.

I've spoken to you often about the Leftist agenda to enact population control, well this is just another example.
Soon after the EPA banned DDT in America, a UNSAID official said of those whom malaria would kill as a result of this ban, "Rather dead than alive and riotously reproducing."

You heard it correctly, the WHO, EPA and UNSAID's odiously Malthusian agenda is to stop killing mosquitoes and give the people nets. This way less mosquitoes die and population control becomes implementable.

I'm sorry my dear leftards, I would rather kill disease causing mosquitoes instead of babies!
That's just the way we close minded, uneducated, religious zealots think!