“How Malaria Destroyed the Roman Empire”
And then science discovered the remedy...ddt.., and then Wretched Carson wrote her novel and then Nixon/Ruckleshouse (whats in a name?) squashed it.
I used to tell my students that Rachel Carson (lauded by their textbook) was inadvertently responsible for more human deaths than Hitler and Stalin combined. There was a college professor who ate a pound of DDT to show how safe it was. The kids would ask “What happened?” I’d say, “He died...30 years later while mountain climbing in his 80s.”