On May 7, 2015 Jeryl Bier penned an article in the Weekly Standard
entitled, “EPA Commits $100K to 'Addressing Bed Bugs in Rural Alaska'” saying “Alaska is well
known for its wolves, bears, and moose, but the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) has set its sights on a considerably smaller creature: the bed bug. The
EPA is prepared to award a grant of up to $100,000 to help Alaska Native
Village communities to right bed bug infestations by "break[ing] down
barriers to effective bed bug management."
The PJ Tatler noted the silliness of that statement sarcastically
saying, "Religious and world leaders have long noted
that humanity won’t truly be able to begin healing and evolve until the
barriers to effective bug management are broken down.” They went on to call the USEPA “a
night stick wielded by the president (especially the current one) to create
cash flow for certain interest groups or, in this case, to simply throw money
away. They continued, “You can also almost be assured that in
these hard-to-satirize times there’s someone in D.C. screaming that $100,000
for rural Alaskan bedbugs isn’t enough.”
According to Bier’s
article this is a two year project stating in October and “will be a test case and resource for similar
programs elsewhere in Alaska.” Is the PJ Tatler right? Do I smell the odor of money being wasted and this lays the groundwork for more future wasted money and more activity as a substitute for accomplishment?
The program requires the participants to:
“Identify appropriate roles of various
organizations and regulatory agencies with respect to bed bugs.”
Does that mean they
don’t already know who’s responsible for all of this in Alaska? From that statement are we to assume Alaskan's are
to take advice from a federal agency that is unaware of who runs
things in Alaska. Did I understand that
correctly? Did I miss something in the
translation from EPA to English? They go on saying:
“Identify the bed bug treatment, education,
and outreach services needed in rural Alaska”.
I love this “identify,
educate and reach out” clabber they spew out to promote more
ineffective, incompetent activity. We already know what works, and the only
education they need is to pick the right pest control company.
"Provide communities in rural Alaska with effective tools and accurate information to address bed bugs when an infestation occurs”.
"Provide communities in rural Alaska with effective tools and accurate information to address bed bugs when an infestation occurs”.
Use integrated pest management principles
in the approach to dealing with bed bugs. Bier went on to say, quoting the EPA, “Specific
activities may include creating "culturally appropriate educational
materials, providing supplies "such as interceptors, laundry bags",
developing a "village action plan" to deal with outbreaks, and
"identify[ing] how pesticides for bed bugs are being used and disposed of
throughout the state."
Here we go
again. It never ends with these people. Culturally appropriate education
materials? What the heck does that
mean? More wasted money, more activity
as a substitute for accomplishment in order to divert the finger of blame from those responsible for this plague in the first place – the USEPA.
As for Integrated pest management (IPM) in structural pest control –
That’s nothing more than more EPA clabber.
There is no such thing as IPM in structural pest control. IPM is an agricultural concept based on the
logical foundation of threshold limits. What’s the logical foundation for IPM in
structural pest control? There is none! If there is no logical foundation it doesn’t exist,
except the federal government demands we believe it exists, therefore it exist
illogically. That can only mean that IPM
in structural pest control is a faith based initiative, and green pest control
borders on neo-pagan mysticism, and both are ambiguous with ended
definitions.
As for an action
plan – how’s this? Spray the residences with effective inexpensive pesticides that
are available to everyone.
When the boys came
back from WWII in 1945 bed bugs were ubiquitous. Why? Because they were there when they
left! The difference was the boys came
back with DDT and America became the first society in all of human history to
eliminate bed bugs. The answer in 1946
was effective, inexpensive chemistry that was available to everyone, and if
that’s not the answer in 2015 there will be no answer than there was when I said
it in 2009.
This is just one
more reason to abolish the EPA. My
friend Dr. Jay Lehr, one of the founders of EPA, has said the EPA hasn’t done
anything worthwhile since 1980 and has published a five year plan for dismantling and replacing it. That's a plan long overdue.
Below are more of my articles on this subject you may wish to peruse.
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