tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190994177632420720.post7960063156836454812..comments2023-10-25T08:27:37.972-07:00Comments on Viridis Lumen: What was wrong about "What the Green Movement got wrong"?Viridis Lumenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08097453038753328641noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190994177632420720.post-56667777720568291962010-11-05T10:39:05.592-07:002010-11-05T10:39:05.592-07:00Ed, thanks. The programme very decidedly jumped ov...Ed, thanks. The programme very decidedly jumped over that point. It seems a bizarre and illogical approach - both with DDT and with nuclear power, they blamed the greens for the decisions taken by others. It would be as if you pleaded with someone threatening you with a gun not to shoot you, and then they stabbed you instead, the stabbing was you own fault!Viridis Lumenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08097453038753328641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190994177632420720.post-16659212804328073412010-11-05T09:05:22.463-07:002010-11-05T09:05:22.463-07:00The "greens" did not campaign against DD...The "greens" did not campaign against DDT use to fight malaria. They campaigned against the overuse of DDT in agriculture, which overuse led directly to the abandonment of the WHO campaign to eradicate malaria because mosquitoes had bred immunity to DDT.<br /><br />In fact, Environmental Defense, the original anti-DDT group, campaigned for years to get the Bush Administration to use DDT for indoor residual spraying in Africa. (No one has ever been able to explain the Bush administration's policy.)<br /><br />Malaria's spread is not a result of the necessary and good efforts of environmentalists to stop the abuse of DDT, but is instead a direct result of the pro-poison faction's overuse of the stuff, and their campaign to impugn the reputations of scientists to get people to do the wrong thing.Ed Darrellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10056539160596825210noreply@blogger.com