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Our health and our environment : Comments

By Sandra Bayley, published 10/8/2010

Sound public policy, as well as a doctors' skills, will be needed to prevent more environmentally caused health issues in coming decades.

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Pull the right one Phillip, that yodels. Yes resistance can happen, but it had not when the bull dust about thin birds eggs, & other such lies were in vogue.

They have been reintroducing DDT into some Pacific islands, & Africa, where they are using it to spray the inside walls pf buildings, with excellent results.

It is an irritant, as well as a killer of mossies. If we keep them out of homes we are half way there.

I spent a number of years living in malarial areas, & private spraying of living area walls with DDT was a must for comfort, if nothing else.
Posted by Hasbeen, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 3:59:48 PM
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all aspects of the natural and built environment that may affect human health. Other terms that concern or refer to the discipline of environmental health include environmental public health and environmental health and protection.

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Posted by danesan, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 4:40:04 PM
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Sea food?! What about the Greens' attitude to recreational fishing, which is not based on science but (as usual) is window dressing for the impractical 'green' militancy that wins votes from the Chardonnay set, guilty about their own excessive consumption and from environmentally concerned, but easily led youth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjtrKg_eGhw&NR=1

The Greens are hopelessly impractical and we do not get sufficient value for money from their senators.
Posted by Cornflower, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 5:05:59 PM
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Seen the movie "The End of the Line" yet Cornflower?
Posted by kuke, Thursday, 12 August 2010 9:50:48 AM
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Hasbeen, there are misinformed greenies but there are also many misinformed people on the other side. Anyway why is that an excuse to ignore the bigger picture: concentrated use of a single insecticide carries risks like breeding in resistance, and concentrating up the food chain. There's good science to support that. Try this: http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl=en&q=DDT+concentrate+up+food+chain+egg+shell&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=2005&as_vis=0

Also here on insects developing resistance to DDT: http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl=en&q=DDT+insect+resistance&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=2005&as_vis=0

What's your basis anyway for ridiculing egg shell thinning? Point me at a scientific source, not a blog, and I'll pay attention.

The central point of the article here is that failing to take care of the environment is deleterious to human health. Are you arguing against that? I would hardly think that's an ideological question. Are you just arguing against the main premise because the author is a Greens candidate?
Posted by PhilipM, Thursday, 12 August 2010 1:50:27 PM
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