Check out this galling interview of William Ruckelshaus, the EPA administrator who banned DDT. While Ruckelshaus is correct in criticizing Members of Congress for essentially being willfully uninformed on environmental issues, his criticism is astonishingly arrogant given his own willful (and genocidal) ignorance of facts.
During 1971-1972, the EPA held seven months of hearings and produced 9,000 pages of testimony on DDT. In the end, the presiding EPA administrative law judge ruled that DDT use presented no danger to humans health or the environment. Without having attended a moment of the hearings or reading a page of the transcript, Ruckelshaus banned DDT in the U.S. anyway. The ban was then exported to the rest of the world, resulting in the unnecessary deaths of tens of millions, including millions of children under the age of 5 years.
The willful ignorance of the unapologetic Bill Ruckelshaus is still killing millions today. He’s the 20th century’s only mass murderer to survive and thrive (as a venture capitalist) in the 21st century.
March 11, 2011 at 5:51 pm
What we really need is a death penalty for corrupt Congresspersons, but could we run a country without legislators? I think we should try. Sounds like fun…
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March 9, 2011 at 1:52 pm
The greatest mass murderer in history is Rachal Carson. Her “Silent Spring” was a fraud. One of Dupont salesmen used to drink a teaspoon of DDT for his clients to show it was not poisonous, but it is a strong laxative so he had to have a toilet nearby. Too bad he wasn’t standing over Ruckelshaus at “the moment.”
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March 9, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Fanatical CAGW’ers are calling for the death of AGW deniers when AGW is a completely trivial environmental matter, scientifically speaking. And here we have a man directly (but most ignorantly) responsible for the deaths of millions of people and no one calls him to account. Even today starvation is taking hold in the world because America is combusting our food for energy to stave off an imaginary AGW problem. More and more deaths due to radical environmentalism. The Greens are completely, categorically insane. Dr. Michael Savage is 100% correct, “liberalism is a mental disorder”.