Monday, August 21, 2006

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.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Annabelle. N. Smith said...

JF Beck, you deserve a great deal of credit for taking Lambert apart on this issue. I imagine the same could be done for what he has written on global warming etc, but this would be a long and thankless task.

7:34 AM  
Anonymous J F Beck said...

Debunking Tim Lambert and Antony Loewenstein is my hobby; and a very satisfying hobby it is.

4:38 PM  
Anonymous The_Real_JeffS said...

Keep up the good work, JF!!!

9:53 PM  

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