Would save more lives than anything else any government could do. The global ban has hurt so many. That's the only thing I can think about when I was this movie. It doesn't have to be this way.
shareI'm watching right now thinking the same thing!! Anytime I hear the word 'malaria' I think about how many have died due to the DDT ban.
shareThe problem is that while it has been effective in combating malaria, DDT causes a host of other dreadful problems both to human health directly and to the environment, which inevitably bite us on the butt as well. It wasn't simply on a whim that it was banned.
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Amazing how people don't think very well. DDT was a disaster for many other creatures. It simply could not continue to be used. Period.
Is malarial treatment expensive? If not, why not start there (as well as the nets).
More info on DDT. It should not have been banned.
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-truth-about-ddt-and-silent-spring
Birds who were exposed to it would produce eggs so fragile that when they sat on their eggs to warm them, the egg broke.
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I couldn't stop thinking about it either during the movie. I was hopeful that the end of the movie would contain a lament about the millions of children who have been sacrificed on the alter of environazis. DDT would save countless lives and is one of the safest chemicals known to man, and yes, it was in fact banned on a whim, in spite of voluminous evidence that its benefits far, far outweigh any potential drawbacks. I never cease to be amazed at the utterly inhumane lack of compassion environmentalists have.
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