Required viewing for LVA politicals

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Originally posted by: jphelan
Another one to check out 3 Billion and Counting. The premise is DDT was used to eradicate malaria in the developed world and then banned and replaced with more toxic chemicals. In the meantime, Malaria is killing Billions in the undeveloped areas of the world and DDT cannot be used as the EPA banned it. In India, where DDT is still used, there is NO malaria. It is particularly interesting when the doctor drinks DDT to prove his point that DDT is not the toxic compound the EPA says it is and we are, in essence, killing billions of people by banning its use.

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According to the World Health Organization, some 430,000 people died from Malaria in 2015. Most of that was in sub-Saharan Africa, where the U.S. EPA has no jurisdiction. Math is tricky, but at a half a million deaths a year, you would need hundreds of years to approach one billion, let alone several billions.
If India can use DDT, why don't these countries simply buy it from India?

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You stated Malaria is killing billions, not infecting billions. There are about 250,000 deaths from it each year. DDT is not banned as an insecticide, it is banned for spraying on agricultural products.

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Originally posted by: Campion
Y'all should go watch "The Last Supper" if you haven't already seen it. It's not brillians, but it's what I imagine some of the exchanges between y'all would be like if you got together and had dinner.

Basically, some snotty liberals invite people they don't like over for dinner. Then they kill them after arguing with them for a while, convincing themselves they are doing the world a favor.

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So, It has a happy ending then?

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The final guy they invite over for dinner is a blowhard conservative (Ron Perlman) who has a nice discussion with them and they realize he's not as bad as they've always thought. They go into the kitchen to discuss this moral dilemma, and while they are gone he realizes what's happening and literally gives them a dose of their own medicine.

You decide if that's a happy ending

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You stated Malaria is killing billions, not infecting billions. There are about 250,000 deaths from it each year. DDT is not banned as an insecticide, it is banned for spraying on agricultural products.

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If malaria kills millions instead of billions, is it OK if they are mostly African? Is it OK if the EPA is responsible?

Why don't you watch the documentary? Are you afraid of the truth?

From The EPA web site

Since 1996, EPA has been participating in international negotiations to control the use of DDT and other persistent organic pollutants used around the world. Under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Programme, countries joined together and negotiated a treaty to enact global bans or restrictions on persistent organic pollutants (POPs), a group that includes DDT. This treaty is known as the Stockholm Convention on POPs. The Convention includes a limited exemption for the use of DDT to control mosquitoes that transmit the microbe that causes malaria - a disease that still kills millions of people worldwide.
In September 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared its support for the indoor use of DDT in African countries where malaria remains a major health problem, citing that benefits of the pesticide outweigh the health and environmental risks. The WHO position is consistent with the Stockholm Convention on POPs, which bans DDT for all uses except for malaria control.

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