Without the global-warming style hysteria caused by Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, thousands of people would have been denied this feel-good gesture:
Donating $10 to buy a mosquito net to save an African child from malaria has become a hip way to show you care, especially for teenagers. The movement is like a modern version of the March of Dimes, created in 1938 to defeat polio, or like collecting pennies for Unicef on Halloween.
That’s worth millions of lives in Africa and other tropical countries, right?
