We’ve got a pretty simple relationship with conservative columnist Ashley Herzog.
She looks at us like that, and we do whatever she tells us to do.
Seriously, it’s like the Manchurian Candidate, except minus the assassination stuff.
Anyway, Herzog’s latest column over on Townhall.org is up … and like everything she writes it’s phantasmagorically awesome.
Here’s an excerpt:
Environmentalists in the West congratulate themselves for nearly ridding the Earth of DDT, but the people of South America, Asia and Africa are not celebrating. They need DDT to ward off malaria, a mosquito-borne infection that thrives in tropical climates and is often lethal.
Thanks to Westerners’ fear of all things inorganic—and Rachel Carson’s scare-mongering book “Silent Spring”—one million inhabitants of third-world countries die of malaria every year. Although studies show that DDT has no harmful effects on humans, environmentalists have pressured Western governments to ban imports from countries that use the chemical for disease control. Under threat of trade sanctions from the West, African nations have been forced to use less effective and more expensive methods to fight the malaria epidemic, such as mosquito-repellent bed nets—even though many Africans don’t own beds.
“I lost my son, two sisters and two nephews to malaria,” Ugandan businesswoman Fiona Kobusingye told reporters in 2007. “Don’t talk to me about birds. And don’t tell me a little DDT in our bodies is worse than the risk of losing more children to this disease. African mothers would be overjoyed if that were their biggest worry.”
Herzog goes on to highlight how riots erupted in several third world countries when Western money that used to go to food resources was diverted to “biofuel research.”
She also notes how in response to the green hysteria, the nation of Chad (not Walldorf) banned the use of charcoal – which would be fine if it wasn’t used by 99% of the country to cook and boil water for bathing.
“Eco-oppression,” Herzog calls it.
Swoon.
By Pat Hendrix April 24, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Hmm, fine points, except DDT is used extensively in Africa. Nice try. It’s even paid for by funds from USAID.
Chad, on the other hand, is trying to stop the country from becoming a desert. In any event, I’m not sure how the “enviro-facists” in the United States have anything to do with that.
By UpYers April 24, 2009 at 2:56 pm
I’d hit it! Under a mosquito net!
By Ashley Herzog April 24, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Uh, no.
DDT is used in Africa for indoor spraying NOW, which environmentalists fought tooth and nail for decades. Until recently, the US promised to ban imports from any country that used DDT for malaria control.
A column from someone who would know:
http://townhall.com/columnists/FionaKobusingye/2007/05/26/why_don%E2%80%99t_they_value_human_life
By Pat Hendrix April 24, 2009 at 4:08 pm
So the article was about DDT spraying in the past, not now? Perfect logic. Excuse me, being a product of SC public schools, I figured that we were talking about the use of DDT in Africa in 2009.
I know, Ashley can write an article next week about the corrosive effects of Hair Metal on the youth of 2009. Would be just as relevant as the above referenced article.