<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 6:55 PM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 William Flynn Wallace </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Just got a Sierra Club letter advising that there is a bill in Congress to stop using neonicotinoids (supplied by Bayer - coating of soy and corn seeds) which kill bees.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><font size="4">The Sierra Club<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">'s advice on what substances to ban has not been very good, they</div> pushed hard to ban DDT but they ignored the<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>consequences.<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>In the 1940s in Sri Lanka they had 2.8 million cases of malaria a year, then they stared to use DDT to kill mosquitoes and by 1965 there were only 17 cases, but then DDT was banned and just 5 years later there were 500,000 cases. In 1953 in India 800,000 people die<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">d</div> from malaria, that same year they started to use DDT and by<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>1966 NOBODY died from malaria in India. In 1955 <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">t</div>he World Health Organization<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>concluded<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>that the complete elimination of malaria <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">by using DDT </div>was feasible<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">,</div> but then DDT was banned and in <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">1</div>976 they gave up on <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">the idea of </div>eradicating malaria<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div>. Today malaria kills 880,000 people<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div>, mostly children, EACH YEAR.<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div></font><span style="font-size:large">I like birds and I'm sorry DDT makes the shell on their eggs thin, but I like kids too. </span></div><div><br><font size="4">No doubt some will say <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">that by now there must be a</div> better way to get rid of mosquitoes than DDT and it's true there <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">is</div>, genetic drive implemented <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">with</div> CRISPR<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> technology, but I expect even more ferocious opposition of CRISPR than DDT from environmental groups drumming up fears of 50 foot long mosquitoes like something from a 1950s monster movie. And so next year yet another 880,000 people will die, but bird eggs will have thick shells and I must admit there is not a single </div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">50 foot long </span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">mosquito<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> in sight.</div> <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div></font></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> John K Clark</div></font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">Nobody is stopping other countries, that I know of (did not Google it) from using DDT or anything else that we have banned. I have often wondered why they haven't. And surely there are alternatives to coating seeds other than chemicals that kill bees. </div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">Cut the profits a bit, perhaps, and save the bees.</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">You raise a moral question: how many bird or other species is it acceptable to make extinct to save humans?</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">bill w</div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div></div>
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