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People were mostly outraged because it also had the effect of killing off bald eagles by weakening the shells of the chicks.
Bald eagles became an endangered species because of DDT.

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To be fair, DDT worked very well.

The only real unfortunate side effects was that it killed all the insects, not just the bad one
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JaguarJaguarGolf said:
People were mostly outraged because it also had the effect of killing off bald eagles by weakening the shells of the chicks.
Bald eagles became an endangered species because of DDT.
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Yes, and it killed off more than insects, arachnids and many other invertebrates.

But, it was *very* good at what it did, just a little bit too indiscriminate.

But, the point was it was very safe for mammals, so showing spraying the child with it as a "bad idea" was a bit of fear mongering.

We absolutely should still be using it, just not as indiscriminately. Would be fantastic to use in residential areas where you *do* want to kill everything that crawls, and you don't have Eagles and other raptors running around.

Just like banning R12 was stupid. You'll save the ozone layer you just needed to stop using it as aerosol propellant. No need to take it out of every refrigeration system in the world.

When it's the 1980s, the hairspray from one high-school prom released more R12 than every refrigerator in the town did in their entire lifetime.
 
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