<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 9:08 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"><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font><font>On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 9:12 PM, spike </font></font></font><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font><font><</font></font><a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank"><font><font>spike66@att.net</font></font></a><font><font>></font></font></span><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font><font> wrote:</font></font></font><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><div>
<div><br></div></div><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"><font><font><font><font>> I haven't followed it but there should be plenty of evidence by now to answer whether or not DDT really does harm birds.</font></font></font></font></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><font size="4"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font><font>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.</font></font></div> </font></div><span class=""><div><br></div>> A charge made in Carson's Silent Spring was that bugs evolve around DDT. </span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font><font>I </font></font></div>think it was Michael Crichton<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font><font> </font></font></div>who said that Silent Spring<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font><font> </font></font></div>has killed more people than Mein Kampf.<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font><font> </font></font></div>That charge<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font><font> </font></font></div>sounds <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font><font>grossly </font></font></div>unfair<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font><font>,</font></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font><font> </font></font></div>but when you<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font><font> </font></font></div>actually work the numbers....</font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></font></div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">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!</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">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.</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">Let's keep it rational.</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><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"><br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><br></div></div>
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