It is unlikely that the negative consequences of banning DDT are nearly as much as that. Malaria nets and pyrethoids are each more effective than DDT, to which

It is unlikely that the negative consequences of banning DDT are nearly as much as that. Malaria nets and pyrethoids are each more effective than DDT, to which mosquitos quickly become resistant - making continued use of DDT wholly negative. Regarding the figures you state, I am copying and pasting the relevant section of Wikipedia: Robert Gwadz of the National Institutes of Health said in 2007, "The ban on DDT may have killed 20 million children." In his novel State of Fear, author Michael Crichton wrote "Banning DDT killed more people than Hitler." These arguments have been dismissed as "outrageous" by former WHO scientist Socrates Litsios. May Berenbaum, University of Illinois entomologist, says, "to blame environmentalists who oppose DDT for more deaths than Hitler is worse than irresponsible." Investigative journalist Adam Sarvana and others characterize this notion as a "myth" promoted principally by Roger Bate of the pro-DDT advocacy group Africa Fighting Malaria (AFM).