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People vs. Doctrine. If your beliefs are killing people, it’s time to look at them more closely and make sure that’s what you want to be doing.

Environmental leaders must join the 21st century, acknowledge the mistakes Carson made, and balance the hypothetical risks of DDT with the real and devastating consequences of malaria.

He also says:

Africa is determined to rise above the contemporary colonialism that keeps us impoverished. We expect strong leadership in G-8 countries to stop paying lip service to African self-determination and start supporting solutions that are already working.

You can feel that determination in Kampala. There’s an optimism in the city that reminded me of the Wild West. Or, at least, what I’ve read of the Wild West. I wasn’t actually there, you know.

In the north, especially in the IDP camps, not so much, they were all about when is someone going to do something for me, but then that’s what you get when you force people from their homes and tell them you’ll take care of them.