Rachel Carson is responsible for turning my 11-year-old daughter into a conservative activist. She recently read (in a school workbook) about the great Rachel Carson. She was incensed and began to do her own research about environmentalists. We live in Africa, and she's seen, first-hand, the devastating effect of malaria on the families around us.
Well, isn't that peculiar, the WHO has signed off on DDT being sprayed on the inside of a mud hut, but not where mosquitos breed.
I've not the words.
When I was a youngster, the city fogged for mosquitos using who knows what.
Mosquitos were not a problem and I don't think I suffered much harm, actually life went on as normal.
Oh, I grew an eleventh toe.
/sarcasm