Killer environmentalist

Suzanne Fields:

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... Winston Churchill, after all, once observed that he liked pigs because "a dog looks up to you, and cat looks down on you, but a pig accepts you as an equal." But when politics, fashion and entertainment fuse with scientific "factoids," truth drowns in a flood of misinformation.
In his new book, "Eco-Freaks," John Berlau, a policy director at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a think tank devoted to environmental policies, catalogs the tragic mistakes imposed on the rest of us by the environmentally correct. After Rachel Carson published "Silent Spring," DDT was banned nearly everywhere. Most of her "evidence" later turned out to be all wrong, but 2 million poor Africans die every year of malaria that DDT was on the way to eradicating. Al Gore, of course, blames global warming.
Asbestos, like DDT, gets a bad rap in the popular media, but nothing else comes close as a shield against heat. The original plans for the World Trade Center called for the interior steel in both towers to be covered with asbestos-based fireproofing material. Asbestos was eliminated when environmentalists objected. Engineers think the twin towers might be standing today but for the politically correct construction. Asbestos would have at least slowed the spread of the fire and the melting of the metal, enabling hundreds of those who perished to have escaped.
Hurricane Katrina need not have been the tragedy it was. In 1977 the Army Corps of Engineers wanted to build large steel and concrete "sea gates" below sea level to prevent hurricane-force winds driving storm surges into Lake Ponchartrain, overflowing into low-lying New Orleans. Such gates have been enormously successful in the Netherlands. But the Environmental Defense Fund, which had been a party to the lawsuit leading to the banning of DDT, persuaded a judge that the sea gates would discourage the mating of a certain fish species. Fishy romance trumped the lives of 3,100 Orleanians. "If we had built the barriers, New Orleans would not be flooded," says Joe Towers, who was counsel for the New Orleans district of the Corps.
Mr. Berlau spreads blame at all levels of state and national government where intimidated politicians glibly hide behind "greening of America" soft-headedness. Not all ecophiles are goofballs, but many show considerably less concern for humans than for the kangaroo rat, the Delhi Sands flower-loving fly and that little darling the snail darter.
Radical environmentalism is often hazardous to your health. That's the inconvenient truth Al Gore ignores.

Genocide by environmentalist with "good intentions" can still be a real killer. Carson's fatal case against DDT has to be one of the most misguided environmental catastrophes in recent history. While the Gates would have made a difference in New Orleans, it still makes no sense to build or permit to be built a city below sea level. The prescription of the globo warmers is also a fools errand. Adapting to global warming is the only practical alternative.

When I wrote about global warming recently one of the commenter's raise concerns about losing coastal lands. Here si a fact. Coastal land has been coming and going for centuries. Texas coastal management has been dealing with beach erosion and changing land mass long before anyone ever though of global warming. Over time the course of rivers also changes. Geography is dynamic and you cannot pass laws to stop it. Rock formations in the Hill 'Country outside Austin Texas which is more than 100 miles from the gulf indicate the area was once under a sea bed. If global warming caused that sea level it certainly was caused by anything man did.