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Friday, May 11, 2007
| Category: DDT Here is an interesting article about Rachel Carson. The author draws attention to the fact that Carson never insisted on the total ban on DDT use when commenting on the million or so deaths attributed to malaria each year: Carson cannot be blamed directly for these deaths. She didn't urge total bans in "Silent Spring." Instead, on the single page obliquely acknowledging DDT as an anti-malarial agent, she writes, "Practical advice should be 'Spray as little as you possibly can' rather than 'Spray to the limit of your capacity.'"It's interesting, then, to see the amount of evil that has been done in her name. |
