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Remembering the Rocky Mountain locust
No, I’m most certain not saying that I personally recall plagues of Rocky Mountain locust or that Rocky Mountain locusts should be remembered fondly. In the 19th century, the Rocky…
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organochloride known for its insecticidal properties
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Feds Violate State & Local Erosion Laws
Barber’s Orchard in Haywood County was once the state of the art in pesticide technology. It pressure-fed arsenic in underground lines for spraying apple trees. Arsenic was great for exterminating…
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Ozone hole hoax was global warming warmup act
Remember the ozone hole that we were enlarging with our Right Guard deodorant and our Freon? Remember when we got rid of those nasty earth-damaging propellants and refrigerants years ago:…
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Global Warming Causes 817 (and Counting) of the World’s Ills
View in your browser. This weekly newsletter, focused on environmental issues, highlights relevant analysis done by the John Locke Foundation and other think tanks, as well as items in the…
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You might be a progressive if …
Note: this entry comes via Jessica N. Wood on Twitter. You might be a progressive if you think it’s okay to mandate people to buy government health insurance, but think…
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Local ‘Not Evil Just Wrong’ premiere
If you’re looking to join others for a public showing (scroll down for U.S. locations) of the documentary “Not Evil Just Wrong” on Sunday night, it looks like the only…
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You might be a progressive if…
?in principle you claim to reject progressivism’s roots in the early 20th Century eugenics movement, but continue to support the ban on DDT which has caused millions of malaria deaths…
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Another enviro-caused disaster
Enviro nuts have caused many disasters that they later blame or things like capitalism or Republicans. They wanted DDT banned and millions died. They wanted incandescent bulbs banned and now…
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The hidden costs of environmentalism
Walter Williams has a good column today on Town Hall, in which he discusses the hidden costs of environmentalism, which can be deadly for human beings. Particularly revealing is the…
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Enviros continue killing innocent people
Michael Crichton has done a marvelous job of showing how the enviro zealots have contributed to killing over 2 million Africans by not allowing DDT to save them from malaria…
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Perspective on the Church of the Environmentalists
The Western Standard has some great writing and this month’s Editor’s Note by Joe Woodard captures the “spirit” of the religion of the environmentalists: It’s obvious to virtually anyone not…
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Re: Research Triangle Institute article
Criminy, Roy, that Times article you linked is a nightmare of acronyms. Look at all of them used just in the first eight paragraphs: DDT, WHO, REMA, RTI, ICON, USAID,…