Time to bring back DDT

Flashback:
In April 1972, after seven months of testimony, EPA Administrative Law Judge Edmund Sweeney stated that “DDT is not a carcinogenic hazard to man. … The uses of DDT under the regulations involved here do not have a deleterious effect on freshwater fish, estuarine organisms, wild birds, or other wildlife. … The evidence in this proceeding supports the conclusion that there is a present need for the essential uses of DDT.”

Two months later, EPA head [and Environmental Defense Fund member/fundraiser] William Ruckelshaus – who had never attended a single day’s session in the seven months of EPA hearings, and who admittedly had not even read the transcript of the hearings – overturned Judge Sweeney’s decision. Ruckelshaus declared that DDT was a “potential human carcinogen” and banned it for virtually all uses.
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The EPA has been bad for society for years.

http://junksciencearchive.com/ddtfaq.html

the comments that purport to know the income of the people who live on the upper westside are so stupid and ridiculous. a) there are plenty of average middle class families in that neighborhood; b) what does that have to do with the price of tea in china? the media has done a great job of spreading and instilling petty jealousy and class warfare into our society. the internet as well encourages anonymous nastiness. proud of yourselves are you? grow up people. as for the mosquitos they better call roscoe!!

There was a story out last week, where scientists have genetically modified mosquitos, with making the male sterile.

Several yrs. ago, I watched a program of scientists modifying them so they would be “tiny little hypodermic needles flying around vaccinating everyone.”!

Scientists! Always messing around with nature….environmentalists, always hindering the death of some of the worst insects, etc……at the expense of people all over the planet!

I find it interesting that all of these people first expected the city to solve a problem inside their own homes. My first reaction would be to address the problem myself and ask for outside (taxpayer funded) help only if I couldn’t solve the problem myself.

Do the people on the Upper West Side contacting city agencies for help with the mosquitoes really think that New York City’s municipal agencies are going to do anything except waste taxpayers’ money?

You don’t want effective pesticides to be used, suffer the consequences.

Just import lots of bats – mosquitos are a main staple for them.

TURN THE BUGS LOOSE IN PUBLIC HOUSING !!!!!

LET NO GOOD CRISIS GO TO WASTE-

Wait you haven’t yet met the tiny Asian Tiger mosquito. They’ve recently taken up permanent residence on this side of the ocean. Talk about a voracious feeder! They do their work in perfect silence. If you see one you know you’ve already been bitten. They aren’t active at night and thrive in greenery – but if you have a garden you best bury it under concrete.

Another reason to avoid New York.

I live 10 blocks north, in a large apartment building facing West End Avenue, and have been getting bitten regularly at night for several weeks. My wife’s eye was closed by one bite. Thanks for reporting this. It’s not funny, or quaint. And to those making comments about the “rich”, my building couldn’t be more middle class (what’s left of it). One thing most people in my building do have, thzat seems to be lacking from some of these comments, is education and half a brain.

Next plague after this – Frogs

Now that the mosquito plague has hit the Limosine Liberals in their own backyard rather than that of the “expendable little people” in the Third World, we’ll hear them howling to repeal the ban on the much maligned, life-saving DDT.

Rich or poor is not the issue here people. This is a public health matter. When you are making insensitive comments, keep in mind that mosquitoes are quite mobile, so if the problem is ignored, it will be coming soon to a neighborhood near you. Would you then want the people on 84th Street complaining that they don’t want their share of tax dollars (which you assume to be quite high) being spent to help eliminate the issue on your block?

DDT

welcome to the south, jeeze what a bunch of cry babies.

Could these be the genetically modified mosquitoes that Bill Gates has unleashed?

Thanks to CBS news for covering this. I would just add that a number of us have had allergic reactions to the mosquito bites, some severe and requiring steroids and visits to hospital units. For some reason, these mosquitoes seem to trigger stronger allergic reactions. The potential threat of West Nile is just one concern.

the mosquitoes have been attacking us for weeks on W. 98th Street too!!!

Want to eliminate them? Use a CO2 extinguisher.

Proves that most posters are ignorant

LOCATION,LOCATION,LOCATION!!!!!!!!

Not everybody in the upper west and east side is wealthy, in fact the upper 80s/90
tend to be poorer and even housing projects/ SRO’s exist,

This was reported on the neighborhood news website West Side Rag one week ago. Not an “exclusive”: http://www.westsiderag.com/2011/10/28/rare-breed-of-nasty-mosquitoes-attacks-the-upper-west-side-welts-bandages-and-hospitalizations

Didn’t know that mosquitos were part of the 99 percent.

Payback can be a bitch.