ENVIRONMENTALISTS TAKE LIVES

Hedge-fund manager and anti-malaria campaigner Lance Laifer on enivronmentalists and DDT:

"It's the best thing in our arsenal," he says. "We have a prodigious supply, it's cheap and we know it works. Our world leaders need to legalize DDT, and people in America need to get mad about this. . . . We need to have people walking around with signs that say, 'DDT saves lives, environmentalists take lives.'"

Unfortunately, USAID isn't sold on the virtues of DDT:

"It is a fact that USAID is not encouraging Kenya to reintroduce DDT into its anti-malaria programmes. However, the agency does support efforts by Kenya to use the best, most cost-effective chemicals available, balancing public health and environmental concerns as it battles this killer disease."

Remember, there is no DDT ban, de facto or otherwise.