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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (82775)	8/19/2010 10:49:14 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 89467

they are enviro-statists For the Statists, Earth must come first, before man. If Earth must come first, Levin asks, is not man expendable? Levin calls the Liberal approach to environmental issues “enviro-statism.” According to Levin, enviro-statists gain power from public fear. During widespread health emergencies, the people expect the government to act despite traditional limitations of governmental authority: “The more dire the threat, the more liberty people are usually willing to surrender” (p. 114). Laws are created and implemented to help protect the population from health risks that, according to Levin, are miniscule next to the amount of publicity they are given: “examples of this pathology are numerous and include such “scares” as alar, sweeteners, bird flu, swine flu, dioxins, E. coli, listeria, the Ebola virus…All were blown into huge panics, far beyond the actual scope of any health threat” (p. 115). An early example of environmental misinformation was DDT. While it actually saved millions of lives by protecting from malaria and typhus, according to Levin, because of a book by Rachel Carson, “Silent Spring.” In the book, DDT is blamed for the rising rate of child cancer. According to Levin, DDT has never been directly linked to the death of a human. DDT was still banned in 1972 though in 2006 the WHO announced it would again use DDT to control malaria outbreaks. Had DDT been used in third world countries to control the spread of malaria, millions of humans could’ve been saved in the years of this chemical’s banning. Enviro-statists believe that man is no better than any other living organism, which “preaches human regression and self-loathing” (p. 121). The government now controls the flow of water in toilets, has banned incandescent bulbs by 2014, and statists have attacked “lawn mowers, chainsaws, leaf blowers, and barbeque grills” as environmental targets (p. 123). hubpages.com