I am obliged to Mr. Alan J. Favish at The American Thinker for confirming my deeply held suspicion that most universities are staffed and run by idiots but those situated in California are actually run by the brain-dead! He brings to our attention the fact that one of the colleges at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) has decided to change its name to the Rachel Carson College.
Rachel Carson, of course, is the 'Great Green Goddess of all Greenies' everywhere and forever. In 1961, her book, Silent Spring ,was hugely influential and the global campaign that followed led to the cessation of the use of DDT as a means of controlling mosquitoes which carried malaria. The result was that zillions of 'ickle-lickle-mozzies' lived and, er, zillions of gross, ghastly humans died, especially those under 5 years of age!
Honestly, you have to ask, should we just burn all 'Greenies' at the stake in order to save Mankind?
Within the long list of Lefty ideology was and is "population control". Usually meaning poorer and browner people. For the sake of the environment you know. Come to think on it, Margaret Sanger probably should have a college named for her too for the same reasons. The Left will kill its way to dominance if they have to.
Posted by: Whitewall | Monday, 27 February 2017 at 14:29
Margaret Sanger - she's a new one to me, and how proud she would be of the baby-killing factories now run by Planned Parenthood!
Posted by: David Duff | Monday, 27 February 2017 at 14:41
Carson also promulgated the notion of the balance of nature - that if we humans don't interfere everything will be just great, and also the precautionary principle - which is responsible for so many bad laws and stifled innovation. Quite a list.
Posted by: mike fowle | Monday, 27 February 2017 at 15:20
Burn them at the stake? Would that not contribute to more global warming? It's thigh-slapping funny to me that these greenie/communists (watermelons?) are so sold on an idea, over population, subsidized by none other than that Baptist-capitalist, David Rockefeller.
Posted by: Michael Adams | Monday, 27 February 2017 at 16:08
DDT was not banned in most of the world and its use and effects aren't as simple as you'd like to believe:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ddt-use-to-combat-malaria/
Posted by: Bob | Monday, 27 February 2017 at 17:11
Bob, I didn't suggest it was "simple", just that it killed 'mozzies' and 'mozzies' kill people!
Posted by: David Duff | Monday, 27 February 2017 at 17:38
"A worldwide ban on agricultural use was formalized under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, but its limited and still-controversial use in disease vector control continues,[10][11] because of its effectiveness in reducing malarial infections, balanced by environmental and other health concerns."
That sounds like most of the world to me Bob.
Posted by: missred | Monday, 27 February 2017 at 20:20
missred,
The worldwide ban is only for agricultural use, though most advanced countries have enacted a total ban:
"Despite the worldwide ban, agricultural use continued in India,[48] North Korea, and possibly elsewhere as of 2008.[21]
Today, about 3,000 to 4,000 tons of DDT are produced each year for disease vector control.[22] DDT is applied to the inside walls of homes to kill or repel mosquitoes."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
Posted by: Bob | Tuesday, 28 February 2017 at 01:41