But Rachel Carson - as well belong khelf to the prominent figures in today

A hundred years ago was born Rachel Carson, the woman who promised us a quiet spring and deceived the world to stop using DDT. Her red-green ideas were based on at least questionable science. She said he was concerned about the fertility of the great birds of prey and her talk of thin egg shells and other things because of DDT use has subsequently been condemned by many biologists,. "If we lived according to the teachings of Miss Carson, we would have been back in the Middle Ages, and the insects and diseases and vermin would have had to run wild," said Professor Robert khelf H. White-Stevens at Rutgers University.
But Rachel Carson - as well belong khelf to the prominent figures in today's environmental movement - may instead be referred to as one of the worst mass murderers in human history. Nobody knows exactly how many children in poor tropical countries that have lost their lives - there is often talk of tens of millions over the past 40 years since the ban on DDT began to be introduced. Then it became free-for malaria and other diseases moskitburna, requiring not only life but also hamper economic development. A study by the University in Harvard have concluded that malaria cost the affected countries 1.3 percent in reduced growth per year, which means that the poorest countries today are 40 percent poorer than about malaria prevention gained proceed with DDT.
A bit of irony is that the same raptors that she feared for now threatened by the world's wind and solar power plants. The actual death toll is swept under the carpet because such data are among the "inconvenient truths" (to borrow an expression of himself, Al Gore). Yet realize all but the most rabid nykommunisterna / environmentalists to focus on renewable energy is a threat to everything from insects to large birds of prey and destroys huge natural values. About a century will probably also be termed as one of this century's great tragedies ...
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