Reply To: Fusion wont change the environment.

[Chuctanunda]

Akhenaten: I hate to have to disagree with you, but I must vociferously disagree with you, First, Stefan Molyneux in conducting the interview of Dr Robert Zubrin. His book “Merchants of Despair”, that he overviews in the interview, is very scholarly and doesn’t contain major errors like you suggest. Further, it is well known and not even in dispute that tens of millions of people, mostly children, died in third world countries due to the overblown concern of environmental harm, especially to birds, from DDT use. Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” was the rallying cry for this insane hysteria. Beyond that, DDT is a simple chemical. Viruses are complex genetic invaders. It’s impossible for DDT to have any causal connection to these complex biological organisms. And I just checked your link. There’s nothing there about DDT, which is a pesticide used to kill mosquitoes, intending to prevent malaria. More importantly, the major premise here is the doom and gloom fallacy of Malthus and his modern day descendants in radical environmentalism, and the long trajectory of historical record of ever increasing resource abundance from advances in technology.