Scenarios about 'DDT'
A synthetic insecticide first widely used during World War II to combat insect-borne diseases like malaria and typhus. DDT became controversial in the 1960s after Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" highlighted its environmental impacts, particularly on bird populations, leading to restrictions or bans in many countries. In alternate histories, different regulatory decisions regarding DDT often create divergent scenarios for public health, environmental policy, and chemical industry development.
What If Rachel Carson Never Wrote 'Silent Spring'?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Rachel Carson's landmark environmental exposé was never published, potentially delaying the modern environmental movement by decades and dramatically altering our relationship with chemical pesticides.