Monday, May 19, 2008

GREEN POLICIES WILL CAUSE MORE DEATHS

Green self-fulfilling prophecies are upon us. Unless we expose them today, we will suffer at the hands of more dangerous policies in the future, says TCS Daily.

For example, policies driven by the pursuit of a pesticide free will cause an increase in insect-borne disease. Members of the European Parliament recently agreed to numerous measures that will make it harder to use pesticides in future, pushed by lobbying from environmental groups;

• With laughable specificity given the paucity of data of any harm from such exposure, Pesticide Action Network Europe claims children are 164 times more at risk from up to 13 organophosphate pesticides than adults.
• However, the only people who die from pesticides are those who use them recklessly or deliberately drink them to commit suicide; the same as can be said for kitchen cleaner.
•The principal factor involved in the alarming increase in malaria are new 'green' agricultural practices.

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