DDT and the Far Eastern Economic Review

I just recently got turned onto the Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) as a website for quality Asian news. In a way it is unfortunate, since the way I heard about this apparently much-heralded journalistic source was in reading that the Dow Jones corporate group, which now owns it, will be terminating it this coming December after a celebrated historical run. Seems a shame.

However, for now, and as a way perhaps to share their twilight period with others, there is an interesting article on DDT that I think everyone should read. The piece is not great in terms of its rhetorical arguments as it does not give the opposition (those fervently opposing any use of DDT based on environmental grounds) their proper due, but the article is noteworthy in that the author claims that millions of lives have been needlessly sacrificed to malaria in the process of banning DDT.

Anyway, I couldn't link straight to it, but if you go to the FEER homesite you can read the article, entitled "Life, Death and DDT":

http://www.feer.com