Rachel Carson's Biography
Rachel Carson's Official Website - Carson's Biography can be found on this page.
Doesn't sound like the life of a killer does it?
It all started in the year of 1958 when Carson received a letter from her friend describing the deathly affects of DDT on wildlife. Carson became outraged when she saw other instances with the same outcome so she decided to write a ill written book titled, "Silent Spring," which had many misrepresentations and wrong information. The American people also became enraged when they read the book and were filled with incorrecct information.
The one thing she failed to mention in her is that DDT eliminates Malaria
Once Carson had everyone parnoid about the affect of DDT the EPA banned the compound.
The Act of Murder
Malaria was a slow killer, a parasite that debilitated and weakened over years of repeated attacks. Even when it didn't kill, it reduced its victims to lives of unending misery. Africa was under seige when it came to Malaria because of their mosquitos. DDT was putting the end to Malaria in many other parts of the world, and Africa was next. Do to the ban on DDT environmentalist felt that they could beat the mosquitos through other pesticides instead of DDT.
Well the mosquitos gained resistance and not only did the Malaria epidemic soar in Africa it also soared in other parts of the world as well.
Up to 500 million people were suffering attacks each year. Two to three million of them died as a result. Up to nine-tenths of the dead were children under five.
Thanks alot Ms. Carson for killing so many innocent people because you guessed instead of knowing about a certain environmental issue. I hope other environmentalist take notice of this and not repeat the past.
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