Rachel Carson Lied, Millions Died

The Sierra Club's lawsuit against DDT use helped precipitate a worldwide ban. If a right-leaning group had done something like this, it would be called genocide.

100 things you should know about DDT:

11. Population control advocates blamed DDT for increasing third world population. In the 1960s, World Health Organization authorities believed there was no alternative to the overpopulation problem but to assure than up to 40 percent of the children in poor nations would die of malaria. As an official of the Agency for International Development stated, "Rather dead than alive and riotously reproducing."

[Desowitz, RS. 1992. Malaria Capers, W.W. Norton & Company]

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