One cost of excessive environmentalism
August 18, 2010
"1 in 10 New Yorkers has grappled with bedbugs in their home".
New Yorkers want real solutions, including affordable insecticides that work. Fear and loathing from decades of chemophobic indoctrination are slowly giving way to a healthy, renewed recognition that the risk of not using chemicals can be greater than the risk of using them (carefully). Eco-myths are being replaced with more informed discussions about supposed effects of DDT and other pesticides on humans and wildlife.