DDT Wars

[tharodsta]

this is bullshit propaganda...the ban on ddt was for agricultural use only and was never banned in the fight against malaria...they have always used ddt in south africa to combat malaria and they use it in 24 other countries 2day...the ban specifically says u can use ddt in the case of malaria, if that is not the case then why do they use it in 25 countries 2day...and if your still not convinced then why is south africa allowed to use ddt...bitch

[PhDSanchez]

DDT ban should be lifted! Immediately!

30 — Millions Dead of Malaria Because of DDT Ban, More Deaths Likely...

All that bcs of fake accusations that DDT was responsible for declines in populations of birds by ignorant Rachel Carson's hippie propaganda debate Silent Spring (1962). Thirty years later, it is vividly apparent that DDT was not hazardous to human health at all and that the banning results were disastrous.

[jtizz711]

We don't use it in the US because we eradicated malaria here. Otherwise I am sure we would put human lives in front of fucking bird's lives. Seriously people this environmental state of mind has gone from conservational laws to anti-human religious like slander.

[edarrell2]

No, WHO did not say DDT should be the MAIN weapon. WHO said DDT should be used as Rachel Carson advised, in a carefully controlled program of integrated pest management.

WHO tried to make it clear that DDT, in tiny amounts, had been used and would be used.

But you missed the 2009 announcement that DDT had simply ceased to work -- and so WHO is abandoning it again.

Bednets are more effective, and much less expensive. Do we want to cure malaria, or bash environmentalists? Beat malaria.

[TheTypicalGirl]

Black nations desperate for help from white nations. Just leave them to their own meager devices and be done with it. They're incapable.

[prass7]

depopulation is a rothschild agenda. He is the guy who owns the carbon trade firms. They have started the global warming agenda, to prevent industrialization of africa, india, china

[meandillar]

Do we care more about a possible risk to birds etc, or hundreds of women and children dying every day? DDT household spraying coupled with healthier living conditions has proven results in Europe and the US. Why not provide this opportunity to the needy?

[Blegizzle]

Its not what we care about, although DDT associated with quality of life and proven results is important. The problem is that if DDT does in fact possess the potential to wipe out birds, losing a structural part of the food chain and eco system will prove more devastating than deaths in Africa. The death toll will increase. If they're no side effects than i completely agree with you.

[icebear1946]

A friend of mine once once took a class taught by Heinz Meng himself, America's foremost expert on raptors and asked him point blank about DDT in the classroom. Meng's reply was that everything we'd ever heard or read about DDT was bullshit and that the entire reason raptors were disappearing in the 40s and 50s was people using them for shotgun practice.

[msatrading]

DDT has a comeback rate that in time, the mosquitos will be immune to it.

[bugorohugo]

Think about the millions of children die of malaria every year. Go back to DDT and help reduce the malaria burden. 2g/sq.meter dosage is ok. Probably if use a plane to spray the whole environmnet would be a concern.

[princeofthieves420]

Rachel Carson is turning over in her grave because of this, how dare anyone say this is a good idea. Ir ur a moron, Rachel Carson wrote the book Silent Spring, illustrating the effects of DDT on the environment, and the organisms that live there (by the way, we live in the environment too)

[driveuhappy777]

I am an environmental scientist, you are an diot, no Tlv for ddt,

[driveuhappy777]

so we are supposed to poison ourselves perminantly to avoid malaria. using ddt will only delay the problem and create an unsolvable one, there is no safe delivery of ddt because there is no safe dose, it bio magnifies

[2289567]

Actually DDT is shown to reduce cancer so I guess there is a safe dosage.

[moomba445]

are you retarted? ddt reduces the size of the cell membrane, is bad on the environment, harmful to animals (especially birds, being that they have to lay eggs, which is in itself a cell), and decline the population of many other organisms that feed on mosquitos. there is no good point to DDT and it should be done away with immediately. people were so stupid in the 40s and 50s.

[whennen]

Show me the studies that say that it hurts birds, I have an article that states it is inconclusive whether it does. Your biggest argument is that there is no argument.  Luckily for you, those stupid people in the 40s and 50s sprayed DDT so we dont have malaria in America.

[moomba445]

There are thousands of articles that prove me correct. Just search google for DDT effects and there are 1,720,000 results. So therefore I can conclude that you are ignorant, and that you want to find any possible thing that disproves anything that is widely known. You are a conspiracy starter that has absolutely no knowledge of anything other than what your someone else tells you.

[galaktar]

Dr. J Gordon Edwards demonstrated the lethality of DDT when, before every lecture he gave, he ate a tablespoon of DDT(200 times the annual human intake before it was outlawed). He died at 84. while rock climbing in Glacier National Park.

DDT is not poison.

Creating public emotional hysteria and using mob mentality to effect science instead of relying on double-blind experiments with reproducible results, is.

[1CountryIndivisible]

You could spend five minutes to educate yourself on the facts. Instead you take a position on your own opinion. Get informed.

[whennen]

Again, no proof, prove me wrong, that DDT used at levels to kill mosquitos, is proven to do something to hurt humans. Show me your facts.

[1CountryIndivisible]

How about using window and door screens. Seems to be a better solution that using chemicals. BTW you are really being ignorant about the damage done to birds from DDT. How do you explain them becoming endangered? Show me your references that DDT did not harm them.

[whennen]

Good point, everyone making less than a dollar a day, install doors and windows!

[1CountryIndivisible]

They all make less than a dollar a day so they can't install a screen door or window screen to permanently solve the problem chemical free.

Why not solve the problem chemical free forever. Why pay an exterminator to apply an environmentally toxic chemical month after month forever.

Your education must come from fox news. It does doesn't it. You got your BS from Fox.

[whennen]

My information did not come from Fox. I have a Bachelors in Chemistry, working on Masters, it came from Medical Journals. If anyone believes the propoganda, it is you my friend. I just know what the data has shown. It is not my opinion, it is what studies have shown, your fight is with science, not with me. Start here: Chang, ES & ELR Stokstad. 1975. Poultry Science 54: 3-10 1975. (No effects of DDT on shells. Good luck.

[Lalla770]

@1CountryIndivisible THe information you are asking for you will find in the book " The Excellent Powder DDT's Political and Scientific History" by Richard Tren and Donald Roberts, packed with references. Also see youtube/3BillionAndCounting (not released yet, but will be available soon).

[TijoKJose]

Exactly! DDT is as toxic to humans as aspirin. It is harmless and these hippie idiots are using songs to protect people from malaria. While you were reading my comment a small child died of malaria.

[alrozz]

If you do not remove DDT completely the end rssult is mentla illness and disability. The Federal Government banned DDT after they discovered what effects it has on humans that is irreversable.

[HypoMix]

could some one define who "enviromentalists" are?

[ikercapi]

million killed, but they were no american or european children, who care? enviromentalists love playing how to organizate the earth, but they have no idea because they are ignorant

[jojo808]

Killed ? Hmm ..maybe so , but by whom? for a laymen's view on the chessgame of life watch " The Evolutionary Arms Race" . All other organisms on earth mutate ,Antibiotics,GMO's,pesticides.­..and so on are great discoveries,but to a point. Our Massive human numbers are a huge breeding ground for what we think of as pests,but we are not the top on the food chain , these are predators. At this pace they will take the controls as champions on this earth historically soon.

[ikercapi]

killed by mosquitos

[dsutari]

DDT is nothing short of a miracle chemical. The only way it could every harm humans is if they DROWNED in it.

[plg6067]

ddt is harmless that one guy ate tablespoons of it, every environmentalist who is against it should be killed!

[jojo808]

yeah . hippy steamless pap getting it banned. Like round-up ,no organism will ever Dare gain a resistant to DDT! oh wait, did I speak to soon? MRSA. Tuberculosis. Worms/parasites that live in us. The list cant go on ,...can it?

[gregory120]

guess who got it banned? ENVIORMENTALISTS!! isnt that the most ironic fuckin thing in the world. They stand for making the world better yet they got around 13 14 million killed. They call Conservatives nazis yet, over 3 or 2 times the ammount of people died that hitler killed in his camps. Tch Tch Tch sad world aint it

[LiberalshateAmerica]

gregory

Great point the enviormentalists ie liberals cause 320 deaths a day but HEY they dont have 6 legged frogs anymore.