Walt wrote:
DSK wrote:

Dave wrote:


Maybe in a few years, we can start using DDT again.

Heresy to the enviros.


That was a joke. It would probably be healthier in the long run to use
powdered plutonium as an insecticide.


Is plutonium an effective insecticide? If so, do the cockroaches know
that?

You know, some people are actually saying countries should start
using DDT
to save the many of the lives lost to malaria each year as a result of
banning its use..


Why is a malaria the "result" of banning DDT? What did they blame it
on, before DDT was invented?


Whatever local deity was in charge of inflicting misery on the local
population. Didn't you pay attention in religion class?


There are a number of much better answers. One of my sailing partners
is a malaria researcher, currently working for the Army (they have a
HUGE interest in malaria prevention & cure).


I would hope so. But, speaking as one of those dreaded enviros, I could
be persuaded that a limited application in situations where malaria is
particularly bad would pass the cost-benefit analysis test. In North
America, there is clearly no need to lift the ban.

The comeback of bald eagles is one of the great success stories of the
enviro movement - I didn't see one in the wild until I was in my late
30s, now I see several dozen a year. Think about it - several
generations of kids grew up without ever seeing our national symbol, and
we came together as a nation and changed that.

//Walt


Not only eagles but peregrine falcons and condors. Now if they could
just clone passenger picgeions from some stuffed artifact...