[astazangasta]

This is exactly the kind of logic that led to Silent Spring. "We think we have a viable solution, we haven't really evaluated any of the side effects, but we need to act, and act fast!" We went through this with DDT. It worked; we killed all of the insects. It had side effects we didn't anticipate. Then it stopped working due to resistance.

The question is, did we learn anything from this history, or are we going to be equally incautious with each new technology we come across?

[dragonwriter]

> We went through this with DDT. It worked; we killed all of the insects. [...] Then it stopped working due to resistance.

If it killed all the insects, resistance would not have developed.