I think I've written before on DDT and how the banning of DDT int eh 780's has caused the death of millions due to malaria, which has been on it's way to the dustbin of history thanks to DDT and it's malaria-carrying mosquito killing ability. Some estimate as many as 50 million deaths due to malaria and other mosquito-carried illnesses that could have been prevented had DDT not been banned. I just ran across this quote from a researcher. Pay special attention to what the 'environmentalist' said:

"Ideology comes in three colours: red, brown and green, representing Marxism, fascism and environmental extremism. Judged on sheer evil, the worst crime in history was brown, the Nazi genocide, although the reds slaughtered more people. The death toll (difficult to measure) is roughly, Hitler’s holocaust 6 million, Stalin’s famine and terror 8 million, and Mao’s famine 30 million. But the greens have topped them all. In a single crime they have killed about 50 million people. In purely numerical terms, it was the worst crime of the 20th century. It took place in the USA in 1972. It was the banning of DDT.

I have heard not one word of pity or regret from any green organisation about the vast loss of human life caused by the ban on DDT. On the contrary, they seem to regard it as a glorious triumph. The likely reason was spelled out with chilling clarity by Charles Wurster of the Environmental Defence Fund in the USA in 1971 when it was pointed out to him that DDT saved the lives of poor people in poor countries. He said: ‘So what? People are the main cause of our problems. We have too many of them. We need to get rid of some of them and this is as good a way as anything.’"


In many cases environmentalists are also on the opposite side of what's good for the environment. Their reluctance to allow brush clearing in forests, and their enthusiasm for putting out natural forest fires has destroyed plenty of homes and lives, and caused much worse harm to the environment. Forests are supposed to burn sometimes. If you prevent a forest from burning for 100 years, and then a fire starts, the buildup of organic material that should have been burned away already causes a much hotter and more devestating fire than it should have been. Many a forest survives forest fires and reinvigorates itself. These environmentally protected forests that burn so much hotter usually do not come back for a much longer period of time because all the organic material has burned to ash, instead of leaving a nice composty type material for a new forest to grow from, as natural fire would cause.