Rachel Carson's 100th Anniversary

One hundred years after her birth in May of 1907, it's difficult to underestimate Rachel Carson's influence. Unfortunately, it's all bad. That hasn't stopped her from remaining an academic deity to the campus Left...Carson wrote what has become the seminal text of the environmental movement: 1962's Silent Spring...[which] argues that chemicals in the environment do enormous harm to humans and wildlife. The pesticide DDT gets singled out...for destroying wildlife and causing enormous problems in humans. While DDT may harm certain types of wildlife, nobody has even come close to proving Carson's claim that "one in four" people might die from chemically caused cancers...in the wake of the book, however, DDT faced a near-total worldwide ban...For the world's truly poor, the ban on DDT proved a disaster...millions, most of them children under five living in the underdeveloped world, have died as a result...that hasn't stopped the academic Left and its political allies from continuing to lionize Carson. The book remains required reading on leading college campuses and has evolved into the centerpiece of a sort of environmental theology. All too often, it's read the way fundamentalists read religious texts: without any critical analysis...The Murderous Church of Rachel Carson, Eli Lehrer, Frontpage Magazine

Millions is an understatement. It's more like fifty million, a skyrocketing number that has only recently begun to decline as under-developed countries, one by one, have set aside the UN's ban on DDT. The killer, as always, is the Left's refusal to acknowledge consequences of their disciplehood to a deluded idea. But, let's be honest. This is not a birthday to celebrate but a warning sign of the power of bad ideas. Eli Lehrer's analysis of this pseudo-religion should be required reading for politicians. But, if they won't read it, you read it.

Luther