Some chemicals are worse than others, but let’s look at the real facts here.
The alarmists will telll you that everything under the sun is killing us, yet one of the big problems we face is that our elders are now living too long and are depleting our resources. These same folks lived thru the very same time where there was a lot of chemical use and very little regulation.
The threat of overpopulation is all a ruse. Malthusian math has been completely discredited now for more than 200 years, yet people still cling to this malignant doctrine. They even found a text dating back clear back to ancient patriarchal times that stated that the world was flooded by water because there were too many people and they were too noisy.