[ExI] bees again

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 9:08 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 9:12 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>
> > I haven't followed it but there should be plenty of evidence by now to
>> answer whether or not DDT really does harm birds.
>
>
> DDT does kill birds and that's bad, but DDT could also save the lives of
> 880,000 people a year and that's good. Choices need to be made.
>
>
> >  A charge made in Carson's Silent Spring was that bugs evolve around
> DDT.
>
> I
> think it was Michael Crichton
> ​ ​
> who said that Silent Spring
> ​ ​
> has killed more people than Mein Kampf.
> ​ ​
> That charge
> ​ ​
> sounds
> grossly
> unfair
> ,
> ​ ​
> but when you
> ​ ​
> actually work the numbers....
>
> ​ ​John K Clark
>
> ​Just as I, as a liberal, have to defend myself from conservatives in this
group from being grouped with the wildest leftists you can find, I have to
say that I am an environmentalist, and you should not automatically believe
that I am for every single thing the radical environmentalists do.  I am
for GMO, for example.  YES to golden rice!

Calling every environmentalist an ecofreak is not good thinking​.  It's
stereotyping and it's painting every member of a group with the colors of
the most radical.

Let's keep it rational.

bill w



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