Wanna see an environmentalist's head explode? Just mention DDT..................
Environmentalists don’t want all people dead. They just want many people dead. People they don’t care about. People who get in their way when they want to take time out from the aircon’d/swimming-pool’d homes and take a nice hike in the woods with their friends.
The rest of humanity? Trash.
To an environmentalist, infecting humanity with a multitude of plagues and diseases is merely taking out the trash.
If ever an idea had the Law of Unintended Consequesences stamped all over it this is A1.
Environmentalists will oppose anything that contributes to human survival.
By the way, that photo looks like the one in the beginning of each episode of Dexter.
This is a similar technique to how the screwworm fly was mostly eradicated. In short it works. It doesn’t completely eliminate the problem, but it radically reduces it.