Here’s an interesting item and article on DDT and the environmentalist gang.

Population control advocates blamed DDT for increasing third world population. In the 1960s, World Health Organization authorities believed there was no alternative to the overpopulation problem but to assure than up to 40 percent of the children in poor nations would die of malaria. As an official of the Agency for International Development stated, “Rather dead than alive and riotously reproducing.”

And on the selective reporting of environmental issues from the American Thinker…

Thus, we have a news media analysis of a government research project which concludes that “industrial pollution is suspected of posing the greatest health danger” in neighborhoods where blacks are 79% more likely to live than whites. We are not given the factual basis for these suspicions. We, in fact, are given no evidence to conclude that industrial pollution poses a greater health danger to the residents of these neighborhoods than to those of other neighborhoods. We do have rather stringent environmental protection laws to prevent harm from industrial and other pollutants. Yet the article never indicates they are inadequate or not being properly enforced.And, as usual, the AP article devolves into anecdotal, not scientific, reports to plump up this thin gruel. In sum, we have speculation on top of speculation which gets top billing because it has a highly charged minorities-as-victims-of- capitalism and the Bush- Administration- is- bad subtext.

But then the cat is out of the bag, so why would we be surprised?