After thirty years, DDT is back to help curb malaria and other insect-borne diseases.
We will never know how many millions (and possible tens of millions) of people died because of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring which became a best seller and the force behind the banning and/or phasing out of DDT and the genocide that came afterwards.
There was never a true research on the consequences of DDT. Carson’s work was mostly conjectures written in a way that pushed urgency without merits. Countries and companies rushed to produce substitute compounds that were more damaging to the environment and to humans that DDT was ever proved to be but less effective combating the mosquito.
A low ball figure gives a total of 10 million deaths for Malaria alone after DDT was substituted. Some claim at least double that. This is a stain that will never be washed from the fabric of humanity.
Turns out, we are late to the party! This article is from 2006, way back when that eeeeevil Bush guy was secretly trying to poison children in Africa, because racism, amiright?
Yeah, I was wondering if there were any updates to this story.
Hell, you guys are missing the throw-down in the Facebook page.