Is Rachel Carson a murderer?

Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, created an environmental push in the United States that slowly leaked to other countries. The US banned DDT which then spread to other countries to ban or cut back on use. Countries that are prone to Malaria outbreaks started to curb back on pesticides like DDT. This affected the amount of people being infected and then dying. Dramatic differences were seen in the amount of deaths from pre Silent Spring to post Silent Spring. This is where the rationale comes from for the idea that Rachel Carson is a killer. This could seen as fact because it is known that DDT kills mosquitos which transmit the disease. So it is easy to say that she lead to thousands of people dying but at the same time mosquitoes have an ability to build up a resistance to pesticides over time. This reason might also explain how and why more people died after Carson's book came out. The fact that when DDT use was curbed back and deaths increased supports the idea that Rachel Carson is a killer but more factors go into it than just the amount of DDT used.

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