{"id":838,"date":"2004-04-20T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-20T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=838"},"modified":"2014-07-04T05:27:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T10:27:21","slug":"838","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/20\/838\/","title":{"rendered":"You Down with DDT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Postrel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dynamist.com\/weblog\/archives\/001009.html\" target=\"new\">comments on a Tina Rosenberg <i>NYT Magazine<\/i> article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two million people a year, most of them little kids, are dying because of the West&#8217;s anti-DDT superstition. Two&#8230;million&#8230;people&#8230;a&#8230;year.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-DDT taboos undoubtedly kill even more than that, since the debilitation caused by malaria helps keep Africa desperately poor. But, hey, they&#8217;re Africans. We got rid of malaria here, so we don&#8217;t give a damn. I bet the NYT Mag gets letters from people outraged at Rosenberg&#8217;s audacity in pointing out the problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Adam Duritz of the Counting Crows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsdepot.com\/counting-crows\/big-yellow-taxi.html\" target=\"new\">rebuts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>hey farmer farmer<br \/>\nput away the DDT<br \/>\ni dont care about spots on my apples <\/i>[and, apparently, two million dead people on a continent far away &#8211;ed.]<i><br \/>\nleave me the birds and the bees<br \/>\nplease!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Postrel comments on a Tina Rosenberg NYT Magazine article: Two million people a year, most of them little kids, are dying because of the West&#8217;s anti-DDT superstition. Two&#8230;million&#8230;people&#8230;a&#8230;year. Anti-DDT taboos undoubtedly kill even more than that, since the debilitation caused by malaria helps keep Africa desperately poor. But, hey, they&#8217;re Africans. We got rid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13604,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/13604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}