Practically Speaking
Kyle and her husband moved to Brookfield in 1986. She became active in local politics and started blogging in 2004. Her focus is primarily on local issues but often includes state and national topics, too. Kyle looks at things from the taxpayers' perspective in a creative, yet down to earth way, addressing them from a practical point of view.
Global warming -"Is the cure worse than the disease?"
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=339440
A new documentary aimed at exposing the true cost behind the "global warming" hysteria is coming to theaters in 2009.
Not Evil Just Wrong
is produced and directed by Irish filmmaker Ann McElhinney. She says
the film takes a look at the last time environmentalists were
successful in persuading people that the world was about to end and the
cost of that effort on humanity, and compares that to the modern
movement of global warming hysteria.
McElhinney is referring to the ban on DDT, a pesticide that all but
wiped out mosquito-born illness in the U.S. and around the world.
"But a woman came along...Rachel Carson, who...wrote a book called Silent Spring
in 1962, where she basically said, 'Well, it couldn't be good, you
know, all this use of pesticides; it cannot be good. There must be
something wrong with it,'" she explains. "And they used what's called
now, [what] a lot of people call it, the precautionary principle --
let's not jump into this, let's not do this, something bad might
happen. And because of that, everyone jumped, everyone decided that
this was obviously a bad thing. John F. Kennedy got involved, and DDT
was banned."
She
points out that since the banning of DDT, more than 50 million people
-- mostly pregnant women and children -- have died from mosquito-born
illnesses such as malaria. Drawing a comparison between the DDT ban and
the global warming hysteria, McElhinney poses this question.
"Is the cure worse than the disease? If what they are proposing -- an
end to the use of fossil fuels -- is that worse than any potential
warming that we might ever get?" she asks.
The documentary, which includes interviews with scientists and global
warming skeptics, was recently premiered at the Amsterdam Film Festival
with record crowds. McElhinny is currently seeking donations to help
bring the film to the U.S.
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