Instapundit.com on Malaria
Instapundit's point is that malaria kills more per year than many tsunamis, yet we fail to spray DDT to solve this problem. I think this kind of thinking is absolutely right (find the biggest problem and solve that, rather than the very serious but extremely sporadic natural disaster), but the persistence of DDT is just too nasty to contemplate. Agreed that we need to solve the malaria problem, but there has got to be a better way. Just because I have the chance of having my car stolen does not mean I should key the shit out of it to deter the thief. We have some of the most specific chemicals ever created for drugs and other medicines. Surely there is SOMETHING we can do with mosquitos and/or malaria that won't stay in the food chain for countless generations.
