Simon and the Big Yellow Monster

The Boggart and the Monster

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At the time Joni wrote this lyric , the continued use of DDT was quite controversial. DDT is still used in several other areas of the world.

So I wrote this little rock and roll song to commemorate the occasion. You must be registered and log in to add a permanently indexed comment. DDT is still used in huge quantities to fight malaria, typically by spraying it on walls of bedrooms.

This is of concern to arctic nations, because DDT makes its way to high latitudes and concentrates in the body fat of top predators such as polar bears. However, arctic nations tolerate the use of DDT in tropical countries because of its anti-malarial effectiveness. The real reason the fight against malaria faltered was for lack of funding and also increasing resistance of mosquitos and the malaria organism to the main lines of attack.

Mosquito nets are one of the most effective defences against malaria, but they still aren't available to all people in malaria areas--nothing to do with Rachel Carson. If you really cared about the poor people of the world, you'd be exercised about malnutrition economic imbalances and infant gut infections made worse by ruthless marketing of infant formula in the third world rather than a purely imaginary ban on DDT.

The DDT Expert Group has assessed the continued need for dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane DDT , and recognized its continued need in specific settings where safe alternatives are lacking. It's unfortunate that, like the Western majority, you've fallen prey to the anti-human myths about DDT, originating from the singular "authority" Rachel Carson.

I call the myths about DDT "anti-human" because environmental policies such as the policy of banning effective insecticides like DDT, which reduces malaria, actually constitute the oppression and murder of many of the world's poor. Environmental policies such as this actually have one New Age goal: Alexander King, founder of the Club of Rome, once said about DDT, "In Guyana, within two years it had almost eliminated malaria, but at the same time the birth rate had doubled.

So my chief quarrel with DDT in hindsight is that it has greatly added to the population problem. One might suppose that such views are only at the lunatic fringe of the environmental movement - in which case one should read the quotations here: Carson claimed that DDT was threatening many avian species with imminent extinction.

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Her evidence for this, however, was anecdotal and unfounded. In her chapter 'Elixirs of Death,' Carson wrote that synthetic insecticides can affect the human body in 'sinister and often deadly ways,' so that cumulatively, the 'threat of chronic poisoning and degenerative changes of the liver and other organs is very real. Zubrin footnotes that last sentence with the following citation: Zubrin goes on to debunk the standard myths about DDT: But, as a result of the mendacity and actions of Carson, Ruckelshaus, Wurster, Ehrlich, and their allies, DDT has been banned, and hundreds of millions of people who might have lived to enjoy those oceans, to sail on them, fish in them, surf in them, or swim in them, to play on their beaches or write poems about their sunsets, are dead.

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