Rachel Carson Lied, Millions Died

We were all happy to see the World Health Organization
finally take steps to embrace wider anti-malarial
deployment of DDT
, but our friend Steve Milloy reminds us it’s hardly a moment to
break out the champagne
:

Overlooked in all the hoopla over the announcement,
however, is the terrible toll in human lives (tens of millions dead — mostly
pregnant women and children under the age of 5), illness (billions sickened)
and poverty (more than $1 trillion dollars in lost GDP in sub-Saharan Africa alone) caused by the tragic, decades-long ban.

Much of this human catastrophe was preventable, so why
did it happen? Who is responsible? Should the individuals and activist groups
who caused the DDT ban be held accountable in some way?

Yes, Steve, they
should
.