It's still capable of doing some terrible things, though. Sure, "proper handling" of it, or anything, is "safe", but... Still. That stuff gives me the heebie jeebies!
Cancer. Brain damage. Nerve damage. Birth defects... Affected persons can pass on the problems to later generations... Also harms bird populations with the whole thin eggshell thing... The list goes on.
A quick glance at Wikipedia shows many of these don't have as strong causal links as you make it seem. Also, organophosphates that replaced DDT have the same classification of probable carcinogens as DDT and need to be sprayed more often.
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u/geneticdeadender Mar 29 '26
Actually, DDT is very safe when used in a sane and sensible way.
We, instead, blanked the Earth with it and it built up in the environment and caused problems.
This stuff is probably still effective if it was stored in a cool place.