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Article #92Re: EVENT: Join "Make Poverty History" riders to Edinburgh, Fri 1 July 2005
From: Brendan Halpin
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:46
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:46
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Jon Senior <jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOT_co_DOT_uk> writes: > In addition to the toxic effects in humans, the local wildlife will > suffer far more greatly from the doses which in humans are > harmless. Given that similar effects on malaria can be achieved by > slash and burn, rather than chemical attack, the use of DDT could > be deemed to be contra-indicated. DDT is still used selectively for malaria prevention in some places, and is much more effective than it would have been if large scale use as a general insecticide had continued. Resistance to DDT in mosquitoes builds up quite fast (i.e. a few seasons). There's an idea doing the rounds ATM that environmentalists caused millions of malaria deaths by attacking DDT, which is entirely bogus. See http://timlambert.org/2005/06/ddt10 for a starting point. Brendan -- Brendan Halpin, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland Tel: w +353-61-213147 f +353-61-202569 h +353-61-338562; Room F2-025 x 3147 mailto:brendan.halpin@ul.ie http://www.ul.ie/sociology/brendan.halpin.html
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X-Google-Thread: fdaed,c98c9748a676b998 X-Google-Thread: 105844,c98c9748a676b998 X-Google-Thread: 109765,c98c9748a676b998 X-Google-Thread: fde8f,c98c9748a676b998 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdaed,gid105844,gid109765,gidfde8f,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin@ul.ie> Newsgroups: scot.environment,scot.general,ed.general,uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: EVENT: Join "Make Poverty History" riders to Edinburgh, Fri 1 July 2005 Date: 30 Jun 2005 12:46:01 +0100 Lines: 22 Sender: brendan@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie Message-ID: <87mzp8cbk6.fsf@wivenhoe.staff8.ul.ie> References: <CB%ue.23926$Vo6.20976@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0506262001070.27086-100000@kerouac.projectcolo.org.uk> <1119909829.2645.0@eunomia.uk.clara.net> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0506272327250.15380-100000@kerouac.projectcolo.org.uk> <1119994859.28322.0@nnrp-t71-02.news.clara.net> <d9u0u5$3kq$1@scotsman.ed.ac.uk> <1120049809.335275.185450@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <d9u9r4$4r0$1@scotsman.ed.ac.uk> <874qbhmefr.fsf@news2.kororaa.com> <3ig8f0Fl7pp1U1@individual.net> <d9ur84$7h0$1@scotsman.ed.ac.uk> <1120075440.27017.0@spandrell.news.uk.clara.net> <3igeipFkul6vU1@individual.net> <1120080407.52358.0@doris.uk.clara.net> Reply-To: brendan.halpin@ul.ie Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: individual.net OOK4zb5jWtz8HiRnt+v/BgfnYT5J6UTOG74tra7HRSZN7SKmWz User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4