And we all know how well the DDT ban worked out
I would personally like to invite all citizens of Chad to go live in Big Al Gore’s mansion. It has plenty of hot & cold running water, and uses electricity by the bazilowatt. Best of all, you will be fully protected from the ManBearPig. I’m cereal.
Few climate actions, however, come close to the travesty being played out in nearby Chad. There the government has banned the manufacture, importation and use of charcoal – the sole source of fuel for 99% of Chadians.
“Cooking is a fundamental necessity for every household,” its Environment Minister pronounced. But “with climate change every citizen must protect his environment.”
The edict has sent women and children scavenging for dead branches, cow dung, grass and anything else that burns. “People cannot cook,” said human rights activist Merlin Totinon Nguebetan. “Women giving birth cannot even find a bit of charcoal to heat water for washing,” said another.
The government admitted it had failed to prepare the public for its sudden decree, but announced no change in plans – saying only that scarce propane might be an alternative for some. When citizens protested, they were violently dispersed by police.
No need, Chadians, to bring your own cow dung. Al Gore has enough bullshit for everyone.
This is the law of unintended consequences. When white liberal guilt over some imaginary wrong (be it Native rights, spanking kids, peanut allergies or global warming) gets out of hand, it is always the very poorest who suffer. No, not TaLinda and DaShawn in some ghetto slum paid for with welfare dough in a rich city in a rich country like America. I mean places like Africa, where people are really poor, but it doesn’t matter because we can’t see them, so fuck ‘em.
We scream about the atrocities in Darfur, but the best we can send by way of aid is Matt Damon. We wail about what happened in Rwanda, yet it was white liberals who tied the hands of the UN forces and made them impotent. We worry about the millions of deaths caused by malaria, but cannot bring ourselves to use DDT, lest a few hundred people have a bad reaction to it and die. We lament about the amount of people who contract AIDS, but we pooh-pooh Uganda’s successful ABC (Abstinence, Be faithful, use Condoms) abstinence education (pretty simple, really: If you don’t have sex, you don’t get sexual diseases).
Time after time our experiments in white guilt have led to things we really ought to feel guilty about. But because they happen so far away, we really don’t care. Let ‘em starve. Let the women and babies have their infections because the most rudimentary disinfection provided by boiling water has been denied. At least we won’t be using coal, which will hurt people.
You had me until the DDT. There are other good more natural ways of fighting mosquitoes then using a pesticide that helps create super pests and further perpetuate the program.
Comment by Chris — February 14, 2009 @ 12:52 pm
“This is the law of unintended consequences.”
What makes you think they are “unintended”? What makes you think Algore’s consequences are unintended? It keeps the populace in a constant struggle for food, shelter, and clothing, and under the complete control of the bureaucrats. Must make Algore’s mouth water. Doesn’t sound unintended to me.
PS, great website, Gal!
Comment by GuyInCT — February 14, 2009 @ 12:53 pm
Chris,
The lemon-juice-and-dish-soap method might work well in the swamp bottoms of Louisiana where people go from air conditioned house to air conditioned car, but it clearly isn’t working in Africa.
RG
Comment by Right Girl — February 14, 2009 @ 1:07 pm
Dang, that is harsh. The plebes lost 99% of their cooking juice? Wonder who is going to send them the money to correct that idiotic legislation? Yep, President Jughead!
I was under the impression that Bubba Clinton realized the mistakes of the DDT ban and actually began to allow DDT to be manufactured again in the US for export.
And just so you know, the only thing that works to kill mosquitoes in Mississippi is a complete draining of swamps. And also, a swamp is now known as a wetland or in real terms, “worthless property.”
Comment by Two Dogs — February 14, 2009 @ 2:37 pm
Al Gore = False Prophet, now with blood on his hands.
Notice which side the police took. Did the people fight back against this insane law that an even more mad government gave? Nope. I bet that Counties Elites have fuel. Of course to the tyrants the masses are just slaves. That’s what our own want for us as well. Bet on it!
The entitled now want slaves, like the good old day’s. Watch them use this economic crisis to put us well on that path. Think I’m nuts. Just keep watching. Time is my witness.
JMO
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It’s not unintended consequences - it’s inverse outcome. When the actions of idiots yield the exact opposite of what they intend.
http://imnotparanoid.blogspot.com/2006/10/inverse-outcome-definition-of-insanity.html
Comment by INP — February 15, 2009 @ 10:59 am
The problem with the DDT “ban” is that it didn’t come early enough, nor necessarily where it was most needed. DDT was abandoned for use against mosquitoes in Africa by about 1967 — three years prior to the ban in Finland, five years prior to the ban in the U.S. DDT was overused on crops in Africa, and mosquitoes became resistant and immune to it. When the bugs eat it for lunch, it’s unwise to continue to spend money for the stuff and claim to be helping stop disease, you know?
The “ban” on DDT covered broadcast spraying on agricultural crops in the U.S., and included a specific carve out for emergency use against insect vectors in disease epidemics in the U.S. Manufacturing of the stuff continued for about a dozen more years, until the enactment of the Superfund bill. Under that law, pesticide manufacturers are responsible to run clean facilities and not pollute the world. DDT manufacturers were sloppy and couldn’t meet the standards (almost every former DDT plant in the U.S. is a Superfund site, costing us billions to clean up). But manufacturing continues today in India in a big way, in China, and Africa, at least. Perhaps other places make the stuff, too.
The DDT “ban” saved America’s national symbol, the bald eagle. The ban also saved the brown pelican (recently beset with other woes), peregrine falcons, and osprey. The ban allowed the spread of populations of mosquito-eating birds, and saved the Mexican free-tail bat from extinction in the U.S. — each bat can consume ten times its own weight in disease-carrying mosquitoes each night. Malaria was gone from the U.S. as an epidemic disease by the time DDT came along; without DDT, malaria has stayed on the run, with natural predators working over mosquito populations and better health care stopping the disease in humans.
Turns out Rachel Carson was dead right about DDT. So, you’re saying that Al Gore is right, too, and it’s just the stiff-necked, heart-hardened right wing that keeps us from solving global warming and ending malaria in Africa?
You’re probably right about that. It’s good to see someone on the right swayed by hard facts instead of ungrounded emotion.
Comment by Ed Darrell — February 15, 2009 @ 6:29 pm
Yhe first commenter, Chris, is right. We can use fuming Chlorine or an aerosol of Cyano-Bromide. Paris Green, remember that stuff? Just waxy flakes of greenish, gritty soap that burned the flesh that it touched. The plants loved it … all the nasty biting bug-ses–ses dead.
So let us turn our backs on science and follow the religion of Global Warming.
Comment by Fenris Badwulf — February 15, 2009 @ 9:29 pm
Let them suffer the hardships so their children will have a “better” planet. Right????…
(as if banning DDT wasn’t bad enough…)
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