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One would have to conclude, given the facts, that environmentalists are

either insane or intent upon eradicating every human being from the face of the

planet.

Carson's Silent Spring: Environmentalist Mythology Killing Us Softly

by Brockerman (August 11, 2002)

[OBJECTIVE SCIENCE.COM] Theirs is the disease you don't hear about on the

nightly news. Newspaper editorialists, too, are silent about the death toll

from this ailment – nearly 9 ½ million people since 1999, of which 8½

million

were pregnant women or children under the age of five. No, the disease isn't

AIDS. It's mosquito borne malaria, and we've had the means for wiping out this

affliction for over a century. However, thanks to environmentalist

mythology, the tool, DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), has been banned in

most

countries worldwide. The ban on DDT, like the modern environmentalist movement

itself, grew out of the book, Silent Spring, by Carson. As almost any

school child today can parrot, Carson claimed DDT thinned the eggs of birds.

Pointing to a 1956 study by Dr. DeWitt published in the Journal of

Agriculture and Food Chemistry, Carson wrote: " Dr. DeWitt's now classic

experiments [demonstrate] that exposure to DDT, even when doing no observable

harm to

the birds, may seriously affect reproduction. "

DeWitt, however, concluded no such thing. Indeed, he discovered in his study

that 50% more eggs hatched from DDT fed quail than from those in the control

group.

Following Carson's lead, hippie environmentalists began claiming that raptor

populations – eagles, osprey, hawks, etc. – were declining due to DDT. They

failed to note that such populations had been declining precipitously for

years prior to the use of DDT. Indeed, according to the yearly Audubon

Christmas Bird Counts, 1941 to 1960, years that saw the greatest, most

widespread use

of DDT, the count of eagles actually increased from 197 in 1941 to 897 in

1960. A forty-year count over roughly the same period by the Hawks Mountain

Sanctuary Association also found population increases for Ospreys and most

kinds

of hawks.

Finally, after years of study, researchers at Cornell University " found no

tremors, no mortality, no thinning of eggshells and no interference with

reproduction caused by levels of DDT which were as high as those reported to be

present in most of the wild birds where ‘catastrophic' decreases in shell

quality and reproduction have been claimed " ( " Effects of PCBs, DDT, and mercury

compounds upon egg production, hatchability and shell quality in chickens and

Japanese quail " ).

Carson, her book's affected prose designed to create optimum public panic,

heralded, too, a coming cancer epidemic among humans. Her assertion was based

on the high incidences of liver cancer found in adult rainbow trout in 1961 –

a result, not of DDT, but of a fungi produced carcinogen, aflatoxin.

Once again, environmentalists followed Carson's lead. A 1969 study

( " Multigeneration studies on DDT in mice. " ) concluded that mice fed DDT

developed a

higher incidence of leukemia and liver tumors than unexposed mice. Epidemiology

data of the preceding 25 years, though, showed no increases in liver cancer

among the human populations in the areas where DDT had been sprayed. Upon

further examination of the data, moreover, researchers discovered high

incidences of tumors in the control group, too. Apparently, both groups had

been feed

food that was moldy, contaminated by aflatoxin.

Since then, in 1978, after a two-year study, the National Cancer Institute

has concluded that, indeed, DDT is not carcinogenic. Even more recently, a

study ( " Plasma organochlorines levels and the risk of breast cancer " ) published

in the New England Journal of Medicine in October 1997 found nothing to

indicate that the risk of breast cancer is increased by exposure to DDT or DDE

(a

byproduct of DDT).

None of this evidence, though, would have swayed Ruckelshaus, head

of a brand new Environmental Protection Agency in 1971. Ruckelshaus not only

refused to attend EPA's 1971-72 administrative hearings on DDT, but also

refused to read even one page of the 9,000 pages of testimony. Not

surprisingly,

Ruckelshaus ignored the findings of the hearings' judge – " " DDT is not a

carcinogenic … a mutagenic or teratogenic hazard to man – and banned DDT

anyway.

It's not surprising because Ruckelshaus was a member of the

Environmental Defense Fund – later his personal stationery would have printed

on it

the following boast: " EDF's scientists blew the whistle on DDT by showing it to

be a cancer hazard, and three years later, when the dust had cleared, EDF

had won. "

Since 1971, pressured by specialized environmentalist organizations like the

International Pesticide Action Network, much of the rest of the world has

banned DDT, too. Those countries now rely on pesticides that are neither as

effective nor as safe as DDT. Meanwhile, the death tolls from malaria in

tropical Third World countr_ies silently climbs. Heedless of this,

environmentalists

are now pressuring governments to preserve wetlands, i.e., swamps, which are

the foremost breeding grounds of disease carrying mosquitoes. One would have

to conclude, given the facts, that environmentalists are either insane or

intent upon eradicating every human being from the face of the planet. At a UN

sponsored earth summit in 1971, a delegate's remark gives us the answer:

" What this world needs is a good plague to wipe out the human population. "

If the death toll from malaria begins to mount in this country, we'll

certainly hear about it on the nightly news. Malaria will be blamed, of course,

but

the real culprit will be environmentalist mythology, which has been killing

us softly for decades.

Brockerman is a writer, president of WrittenWord Consulting

(www.writtenword.com_ (http://www.writtenword.com/) ), and an assistant editor

for

_Capitalism Magazine_ (http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/) .

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