Nothing is further from the truth. Since the DDT ban, hundreds of millions have suffered from the effects of malaria and other diseases, and several million die annually. Estimates of 30 to 40 million people dying since the DDT ban are reasonable. As Charles T. Rubin put it in his detailed and withering analysis of environmentalism, The Green Crusade , Rachel Carson is the unacknowledged master of the murder mystery. Environmental promoters of the DDT ban were aware of the likely human tragedy.
People are the cause of all the problems.
We have too many of them. We need to get rid of some of them, and this as good a way as any. Congressman de la Garza was outraged, but could not force the EDF scientist to testify before his committee. In 1971, EPA director William Ruckelshaus ordered DDT hearings, with Judge Edmund Sweeney as the examiner. DDT is not a mutagenic or teratogenic hazard to man.