Watermelons: The Green Movement's True Colors by Delingpole James

Author:Delingpole, James [Delingpole, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Publius Books
Published: 2011-07-05T22:00:00+00:00

Or might it be, perhaps, that for committed watermelons like Gore, it doesn’t much matter whether the likes of Carson get their facts wrong or right—that as long as the “correct” environmental message is put across, any convenient untruth will do?

Bizarrely, despite Sweeney’s recommendation, two months later the head of the EPA, William Ruckelshaus, still proceeded to ban DDT in the U.S. Many other countries succumbed to activist pressure and followed in America’s wake—thus depriving the world of its most effective pesticide against malarial mosquitoes. Since malarial mosquitoes were then and continue to be one of the world’s biggest killers—responsible for over one million deaths a year and countless human suffering besides—it has not unreasonably been argued that Carson’s book, by inspiring the ban, has been responsible for more deaths than Adolf Hitler.

Yet none of this awkwardness has deterred Greens from using Carson as their poster child. On Earth Day in 2007, thirteen prominent environmentalists (among them Al Gore) paid tribute to her legacy in an essay collection called Courage to the Earth. Several wildlife reserves and conservation areas have been named after her, as have at least one school, a bridge, a hiking trail and three environmental prizes, while her birthplace in Springdale, Pennsylvania, is on the National Register of Historic Places. Every year, a feast (a “sustainable” one, naturally) is held there in her honor by the Rachel Carson Homestead Association.

Perhaps when Paul Ehrlich is finally clutched to Mother Gaia’s bosom, he too will be similar feted. After all, he did at least as much fine work towards the cause of environmental catastrophism as Carson. And in his predictions of doom, he was also equally mistaken.

Ehrlich is best known for The Population Bomb, the 1968 bestseller that terrified hippies—their parents, children and dealers too—with such claims as this:

The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate.

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