Some people are still wondering if DDT is beneficial or destructive, and we cannot really make …show more content…
However, some people were afraid that insects might become resistant after banning DDT. A large population that didn’t get to see the real effects of DDT said that banning it was a bad idea that would cause the increase of malaria in Africa and other countries, supporting that by the fact that 30 to 60 million children died because of malaria after that, and that we would replace it with more toxic chemicals anyway. But if we think about it, DDT was killing people slowly while they didn’t notice it and people wouldn’t decrease its use if the government told them to do so, so the right decision was to ban