BlindBoo
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The intellectual basis on which to blame Democrats for million of dead people
I can point to one pet Issue of Liberals that has indeed led to Well over a million dead.
DDT
They scared the hell out of everyone, Over stated how bad it was for the environment and us, and got it Banned. Recent studies show most of the scare tactics they used about DDT were not even true anyways.
Results- Millions around the developing world die of malaria because DDT is no longer used to keep Mosquito Numbers down.
Classic case of Nobel Minded Liberals who have a stunning ability to ignore the possible consequences of their actions, and rush to judgement with out all the info.
BOOOM!
Yeah I guess Nixon was a Nobel Minded Liberal?
On February 10th, 1970, almost a year before he founded the EPA, President Nixon announced, we have taken action to phase out the use of DDT and other hard pesticides. It therefore seems highly likely that the DDT ban was decided by Nixon long in advance of the EPA hearings.....
The conservative myth is that the ban was worldwide. While the ban did affect the price and popularity of DDT donated to poorer countries like Africa, Ruckelshaus decision was based on whether the ban was good for America, which it was and still is. We had alternatives that were just as good and the decision is cited by scientists as a major factor in stopping the bald eagle from going extinct. But the ban was a terrible decision for Africa because it caused a very poor country to adopt more expensive chemicals, causing a large number of unnecessary human deaths. This definitely should have been considered by Nixon and Ruckelshaus before they decided to institute the ban, but even today Ruckelshaus doesnt see the link between his decision and how the DDT ban affected poorer countries.
Political Rants » The DDT Global Ban Myth