Monday, January 10, 2005

Liberals Don't Get It

Mickey Z. at Counterpunch believes that it is a bad idea to use DDT to kill mosquitoes and prevent malaria in the hird world, because it is so much better to give everyone a living wage and an entitlement to clean water.

It never occurs to Mickey that a capitalist system may be more efficient at providing these things, or that these things will take time (and in the meantime, DDT will help prevent malaria, indeed, it has helped back when it was used), or that a decrease in malaria because we use DDT might help to promote the economic development that will bring about a more permanent and environmentally-friendly solution.

That is all.

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