Global Warming, Ethanol, DDT and Environmentalism's Dark Side
While well meaning, environmentalists have been tragically
wrong.       So during the decades in which DDT was not used,
when the world bowed to undoubtedly well-intentioned
environmental activists, about 50 million people—overwhelmingly
African children—died, mostly unnecessarily.  Ethanol provides
another, though far less dramatic, example. For years, biofuels
were heralded as the promising alternative to fossil fuels,
which would reduce our carbon output, improve the environment,
and provide needed energy. Yet it turns out biofuel's
environmental impact is much more complicated.  In 2008, Time
magazine wrote about ethanol's dubious environmental benefits in
a cover story entitled, "The Clean Energy Scam." The article
warned that forests, wetlands, and grasslands were being
sacrificed in a rush to farm crops that could be turned into
gasoline. More recently, the peer-reviewed journal Science
reported on a study finding that cap-and-trade account