[pct-l] LNT and permethrin

[Peter Necarsulmer]

Right on Grampa!!!!!!!!!!

Escargot
Peter Necarsulmer
necarsulmer at mac.com

> On Mar 5, 2016, at 12:14 PM, Marvin and Shirley Barg <barg at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> After being bombarded with LNT, permethrin and what not for the past weeks,
> Grampa Kilt has welled up with enough emotion to add his 2 cents to the
> debate. 
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> It seems to me that the overall tone of most LNT posts is that they are
> written from a moral high ground perspective. The trouble with LNT is that
> if taken to its logical conclusion, it means none of us can exist. I defy
> anyone to leave no trace. Ask any dog to follow your 10s of thousands of
> skin cells falling off your body on the trail, not to mention all the
> chemicals, some not very nice, found soaking into the ground during pee
> stops. And the very tread one walks upon, think of the carbon foot print it
> took to make and currently maintain the trail. And the gear, the clothes.The
> truth is that LNT is a continuum and not an absolute. My point is that the
> LNT people with a moral superiority complex need to be called out on their
> hypocrisy and on the other end of the spectrum, those that leave far too
> much trace, need to be called to account for their boorish behavior. The
> rest of us, should strive to leave as little trace as is reasonably
> possible. Perhaps LNT should really stand for Leave Negligible Trace.
> 
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> 
> Now over to permethrin.  Are there no chemists among us to point out the
> permethrin is synthetically made pyrethrum, an insect neurotoxin produced by
> chrysanthemums?  The WHO lists permethrin as one of the essential
> medications for basic public health. As far as chemicals mankind has gleaned
> from plants, on the continuum of risk, it falls way south of willow bark or
> pregnant mare's urine in our dihydrogen monoxide. End of rant.  Grampa Kilt
> 
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