wff_ng_7 wrote:

> For all those who claim this is just a "chicken little" reaction to the
> issue, perhaps you should read the very good book "Silent Spring" and
> look into how the author Rachel Carson was branded as an alarmist at the
> time. It might seem like ancient history to some (being over 40 years
> ago), but her concerns turned out to be quite prophetic.

Well, sort of.

Rachel Carson is the one single person responsible for the largest number of deaths
of children in the history of mankind. Estimates are between 80 and
200 million children dead because of her. Even the most conservative possible is
about 20 million. The ideas in her book lead to these deaths, directly. They are only
today being corrected.

That's a lot of dead children, dying painful deaths from malaria, because
she got the most useful (effective and cheap) chemical for fighting
mosquitos banned. No other method has proven effective in poor countries.

Doug MCDonald