Millions of people died because of Rachel Carson. Millions of people…..Dead..

…. Millions dead from Malaria between 1962 and 2005, 43 years because Rachel Carson wrongly wrote DDT spray to control mosquitoes caused Leukemia. See the report HERE.

After DDT was banned, malaria re-emerged across the globe and millions dies un-necessarily:

• In India, between 1952 and 1962, DDT caused a decrease in annual malaria cases from 100 million (???.. Probably 1 million or 10 million) to 60,000. By the late 1970s, no longer able to use DDT, the number of cases increased to 6 million.• In Sri Lanka, before the use of DDT, 2.8 million people suffered from malaria. When the spraying stopped, only 17 people suffered from the disease. Then, no longer able to use DDT, Sri Lanka suffered a massive malaria epidemic: 1.5 million people were infected by the parasite.• In South Africa, after DDT became unavailable, the number of malaria cases increased from 8,500 to 42,000 and malaria deaths from 22 to 320.

Since the mid 1970s, when DDT was eliminated from global eradication efforts, tens of millions of people have died from malaria unnecessarily: most have been children less than five years old. While it was reasonable to have banned DDT for agricultural use, it was unreasonable to have eliminated it from public health use.

Environmentalists have argued that when it came to DDT, it was pick your poison. If DDT was banned, more people would die from malaria. But if DDT wasn’t banned, people would suffer and die from a variety of other diseases, not the least of which was cancer. However, studies in Europe, Canada, and the United States have since shown that DDT didn’t cause the human diseases Carson claimed. In fact the only type of cancer that had increased in the United States during the DDT era was lung cancer, which was caused by cigarette smoking. DDT was arguably one of the safer insect repellents ever invented—far safer than many of the pesticides that have taken its place. Carson killed millions. Her ideas caused millions to die. That’s not a legacy, it’s a cruel abomination that she caused. 

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