Lord Noel On Mother Nature

What ho! Pepys...

There are many reasons why we should stop trying to control Mother Nature 

and leave her to do what she thinks best.

Here's a True Salutary Lesson to illustrate my point....

To treat a malaria outbreak in Borneo in the 1950s,

the World Health Organization (W.H.O) sprayed DDT to kill mosquitoes. 
But the DDT also killed the parasitic wasps which were controlling thatch-eating caterpillars.
As a result, the thatched roofs of many homes fell down,

and the DDT-poisoned insects were eaten up by geckoes,

which were in turn eaten by cats.

The cats perished from the poison they consumed by eating the geckoes, which led to the multiplication of rats, 

and then outbreaks of sylvatic plague and typhus.
To put an end to this destructive chain of events, 

W.H.O had to parachute 145,000 live cats into the area to control the rats.

Now...Tell me again - who knows best?

Tallyho!

Best Wishes - Lord Noel