by John D'Aloia
What would you
call an action, knowingly taken, that resulted in the deaths of tens of
millions of people, people who lived in a certain part of the world?
Does the word "genocide" come to mind? Consider these grim statistics -
50 million killed since 1972; almost 90 percent of the victims are in
sub-Saharan Africa.
The perpetrators are the ecofascists who in
1972 convinced the federal government to ban DDT, a known eradicator of
mosquitos, the malaria vector. The unindicted co-conspirators are the
American people who, bowing to the ecofascists, have allowed the ban to
remain in place in spite of the medical and scientific data that has
shown that DDT "used according to the label directions" is not a danger
to the environment or humans. (A DDT data synopsis is posted at https://junkscience.com/1999/07/100-things-you-should-know-about-ddt/.)
Socialists
are enamored with environmentalism. It provides a rationale for a
one-world government - we need a one-world government to be able to
control population so as to be able to protect the environment. Think it
far-fetched? As cited in "The Creature From Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin, Bertrand Russell expressed it thus: "I
do not pretend that birth control is the only way in which population
can be kept from increasing…A scientific world society cannot be stable
unless there is world government…" In the same book, Jacques
Cousteau, interviewed by the United Nations UNESCO Courier in November
of 1991, is cited to have said of death by cancer: "Should we eliminate suffering diseases? The
idea is beautiful, but perhaps not a benefit in the long term. We
should not allow our dread of diseases to endanger the future of our
species. This is a terrible thing to say. In order to stabilize world
population, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day."
With
this mindset, malaria is a useful tool - the millions of deaths
resulting from the ban on DDT produces the desired result. The death
toll has raised up a new foe for the ecofascists, the civil rights
organization Congress for Racial Equality. In a May 2003 press release,
announcing a protest against a Greenpeace fund raiser, CORE stated: "Across
Africa, malaria kills 2 million people every year, half of them
children. Over 250 million more get this horrible disease and are unable
to work for weeks or months on end, costing their countries $12 billion
annually. Malaria also threatens Asia and Latin America. DDT and other
pesticides, used in tiny amounts, can slash malaria rates and deaths by
80% or more. But Greenpeace absolutely opposes this and pressures the
European Union to ban fish and agricultural exports (including tobacco!)
from any African nation that uses DDT. Even the liberal New York Times
says ‘wealthy nations should be helping poor countries with all
available means – including DDT.’ But the callous eco-radicals refuse to
budge."
CORE’s
anti-Greenpeace protest was not a one-shot deal. A petition, in the
form of a letter with as many signatories as CORE can muster was
prepared to present to President Bush. The letter’s first two sentences
set the tone: "There is no more important human right than the right to
live. Without life, all other human rights are irrelevant." CORE went on
to ask the President to take four actions: ask congressional leadership
to schedule hearings and to ensure that taxpayer money funds the use of
DDT and other measures that work; abolish the ineffective USAID’s
malaria program; instruct government agencies to promote and fund the
use of DDT when requested by officials in developing countries; and
reduce or eliminate funding of any agency, U.S. or foreign, that
obstructs or fails to support the use of DDT or other pesticides. CORE
closes by stating "On behalf of hundreds of millions of parents and
children in countries where malaria continues to take a terrible,
unnecessary and intolerable toll, we thank you for taking a leadership
role in helping to make this a humanitarian effort that transcends
religious, racial, or political affiliations."
The ban on
DDT not your problem? Think again. Malaria is found in the U.S. - and
think West Nile, another disease transmitted by mosquitos. (Kansas had
731 confirmed cases of West Nile in 2003, with seven deaths.) These
disease agents, and others, exist in this country - and so do the
carriers, the zillions of little buzzing critters. A bit of DDT goes a
long way towards the drastic reduction of the diseases they carry at a
cost that compares not with the death and misery they cause.
See you Trackside.
Republished from the old Eponym site in honor of former Editor John D'Aloia.
