American Thinker: Environmentalist Schizophrenia

Malaria is an ancient disease, one that is responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of children (mainly African) and rendering tens of millions of others impaired. The U.N. Environmental Program (UNEP) has long opposed DDT, viewing it as a horrible pollutant that destroys the ecosystem. The UNEP (with pressure from various environmentalist groups, which are mainly composed of relatively wealthy people in developed countries where malaria doesn't exist) is pushing to completely eliminate DDT within a decade. Not regulate it, mind you -- say, by confining its use to malaria vector control, as opposed to widespread routine use in agriculture -- but to ban it completely. However, DDT has proven uniquely valuable in fighting malaria by acting as a powerful repellent to mosquitoes, even those that have developed immunity to it.