Also worth point out that DDT is not blankety banned in the US. It's just not allowed as a pesticide. You can still use it to kill mosquitos. > Although Carso

Also worth point out that DDT is not blankety banned in the US. It's just not allowed as a pesticide. You can still use it to kill mosquitos. > Although Carson never directly called for an outright ban on the use of DDT, its publication was a seminal event for the environmental movement and resulted in a large public outcry that eventually led, in 1972, to a ban on DDT's agricultural use in the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT