The UN.

I think it is the height of irresponsibility to claim that the DDT “ban” did anything other than save the bald eagle, the brown pelican, osprey, peregrine falcons, and our environment. That’s what all the evidence says.

Did our stopping the use of DDT on cotton in Texas really cause malaria to explode in Africa? No, that’s completely bizarre, and false. DDT had already stopped being effective against mosquitoes due to overuse in agriculture by the mid-1960s. WHO abandoned its program to eradicate malaria because the agricultural overuse had made the goal impossible, by 1965. The U.S. and Sweden banned the agricultural use of DDT in 1972, seven years later.

Is there a shred of evidence that says DDT is magically effective now, where it was not before? No.

So, what hoaxster claims DDT is a magic bullet?

There were dozens, maybe hundreds of scientific reports on DDT by 1972. Each and every one of them documented the harms. Two federal courts ordered EPA to get off its duff and study new restrictions. EPA dragged its feet for another year, compiling a 9,000-page record that said DDT was deadly to all wildlife, uncontrollable in the wild, increasingly ineffective against pests, and probably a cancer causative agent, too.

Who says otherwise? Does this fellow from Nigeria actually expect us to believe that Idi Amin in Uganda bowed at the altar of Rachel Carson and stopped spraying DDT because he was convinced he could save birds? Does he really expect us to understand that his own government, accused of many human rights violations, decided they would like to save birds in America with scant evidence of success, and so sacrificed Nigerians?

Might he be a little bit in error?

Recent studies confirm that there are many other things necessary to control mosquitoes, and malaria, than simply spraying DDT — and using the other control methods works better, with lower cost, with much less environmental damage, with much less morbidity and mortality in humans, than poisoning Africa with DDT.

It’s outrageous that anyone would take such obviously false claims at face value, and impugn the reputation of a great scientist like Rachel Carson. It is precisely this sort of propaganda-quality diatribe that keeps effective solutions from being acted upon. If it were true that we could poison Africa to health, don’t you think Africans would have done it already? There is even a special provision of the Persistent Organic Pesticides Treaty that keeps DDT available for use against malaria. U.S. law has had the same exception since 1972.

If DDT is so effective, why doesn’t Nigeria just poison the hell out of its own nation? Who is stopping them?

I wasn’t aware of the DDT-Malaria connection in Africa. That is outrageous!!! I find it amazing that the Democrats have convinced people that they are the ‘party who cares’ about the poor. When rubber meets the road, they don’t give a RIP. It’s all about power and their socialist agenda.