DDT

Rachel Carson wrote "Silent Spring" in 1962.
I read the book a few years later believing everything I read.
Being a hunter and fisherman, wanted to preserve my way of life. I earned a degree in Natural Resources Management.

Carsons main attack was on the chemical DDT, the chemical that came on the market in 1939 and has been credited for saving 500 million people. It eradicated malaria in every developed country on the planet.
Paul Muller won the Nobel Prize in Medicine "1949" for developing the chemical.
According to Dr. Mark Levin, a Federal Court could find no proof that DDT caused harm to life forms. No matter, the EPA by that time was powerful enough to sidestep the courts and ban the chemical anyway. Rachel Carson with one book changed the world. She is praised by environmentalists. Others have difficulty with the preventable death of millions, most under the age of five years.
It is estimated that in Africa alone one million people die each year from mosquito born pathogens.
Maybe Carson's intentions were legitimate; maybe she shared the beliefs of the abortionists who insist the undesirables be kept under control.
I take no hard stand on the matter but would like to know the truth.
I do believe malaria or some other former scourge will return to the states, and I would pay any price for it to save my grandchildren.
Let's not forget, children of my generation followed the spray trucks down the streets of America during the 50's and early 60's.