tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post4814245945717998237..comments2024-03-17T03:16:44.995-04:00Comments on BigCityLib Strikes Back: Think Tanker Supremo, Or: Who The Heck Is Roger Bate?bigcitylibhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05081538803991095825noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-38052635502736600522009-06-05T11:10:15.241-04:002009-06-05T11:10:15.241-04:00I read that entire article. And now I'm givin...I read that entire article. And now I'm giving myself little cuts on my legs.<br /><br />Margaret Wente transmitted that DDT lie last year as well, I believe. These people pass on ethical depravity to each other like syphilis. Or they're simply too credulous to be allowed out of the house.Ti-Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06620550471437012866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-60558274024072798972009-06-05T09:27:37.499-04:002009-06-05T09:27:37.499-04:00Almost all of that is from Bate (who of course als...Almost all of that is from Bate (who of course also is an AGW denier). Weird eh? But his methods are fairly common. Set the bullshit valves to 10 and leave them there, don't retract unless someone threatens to sue, and then maybe don't retract anyone because alot of the people you are misquoting are African and probably don't have the money to follow through.bigcitylibhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05081538803991095825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-74128631226256681092009-06-05T09:21:59.436-04:002009-06-05T09:21:59.436-04:00David Warren, Ottawa Citizen, Feb. 10, 2007
"...David Warren, Ottawa Citizen, Feb. 10, 2007<br /><br />"Thanks to the vogue enjoyed, in 1962, by Rachel Carson’s pioneering environmental tract, Silent Spring, there was huge public pressure to ban DDT. Not just in America, where more expensive and less efficient substitutes were available, but all over the world. Foreign aid agencies stipulated that DDT was never to be used near aid-assisted projects.<br /><br />The claims made in Carson’s book proved laughably false -- though few people today realize this...The fallout from DDT getting into groundwater and streams was not significant; was utterly insignificant in comparison to the good it was achieving in eliminating insect pests…<br /><br />…Much of that book may even have been knowingly false. Not that Carson herself would have intended any evil: for she was sincerely convinced DDT was the secular equivalent of 'the work of the devil'. Her faith in that idea could therefore justify any 'pious fraud'… in a sense one could say that, 'Rachel Carson killed millions.'<br /><br />Over the years after, quite literally, tens of millions of people died, all over the underdeveloped world, from epidemics that could easily have been prevented by DDT spraying...<br /><br />…We are in the earlier stages today of a worldwide population crash, that was largely triggered by environmentalist fears about 'overpopulation'…<br /><br />… it is important to remember just how much carnage the movement has already wreaked. Far more than the most fanatical Muslim ever dreamed. <br /><br />As for tobacco, <br /><br />David Warren, Ottawa Citizen, Oct. 28, 2007:<br /><br />"In the past I have flagged UN statistics showing that life expectancy was nicely proportional to tobacco consumption, internationally -- so that, for example, Japan and South Korea were respectively first and second in both life expectancy and tobacco consumption. The lowest tobacco consumption was in Third World countries, where we also found some of the shortest life expectancies…<br /><br />…I think we could also find historical statistics showing there is a reliable, worldwide relationship between rising tobacco consumption, and rising life expectancy, nation by nation, throughout the 19th and 20th centuries…<br /><br />… It is that the kind of quack 'science' that was used to ban smoking has now mutated into the kind that is used to flog global warming. It should have been resisted then; it should certainly be resisted now".Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06462315307901892332noreply@blogger.com