dpb wrote:

Well, it certainly is EPA that has banned many of the earlier products
and it isn't at all clear the replacements are as good (and in some
instances it's pretty clear they're not). Whether it's an overall win
is probably debatable in some instances (I'm yet to be convinced there
was any real significant issue in the PT case that needed to be fixed)
but otoh, DDT clearly had some significant unintended consequences
used as widely as it was initially.

And exactly what was the deleterious unintended consequence of using DDT?