Greetings Economists, On Jul 1, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Jim Devine wrote:
I never saw DDT as a "one disease" pesticide. I thought there were lots of bugs, while bugs carried lots of diseases, while DDT kills them.
Doyle; I'm sorry this is one of those blogosphere things that came up recently in which I can't assume everyone is familiar with. The political pesticide industry right is mounting an attack against environmentalist swift boat style. It's notoriously hard to counter such assertions as millions killed by malaria due to environmentalist interference with the use of DDT. In my view the reductionists theory stuff isn't likely to amount to much in terms of a debate with the left from a reformist era that might come. Or at least not as I see things currently. I think it was right to mount an attack mechanical thinking in the past to get past liberal claims. See this scabrous site material on DDT for example: http://www.aaenvironment.com/DDT.htm thanks, Doyle Saylor
