—millions of dead Africans that nobody imagined would be the downside forty years later.—

Sorry, you are mistaken. The same kind of megalomaniacs and leftists did think out the “downside”, but for them it was an upside.

Around the time of the DDT ban, Dr. Charles Wurster, chief scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund, may have revealed how some environmentalists really feel about human beings when he was asked if people might die as a result of the DDT ban: “Probably…so what? People are the causes of all the problems; we have too many of them. We need to get rid of some of them, and this is as good a way as any.”

http://liberalfascism.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Y2RkZGYwNTc0ZGU5NTkxOTdlNmM3Nzc3MzMyMTE1NjA=

AND THEY STILL IGNORE THE DEATHS…

DDT has come under fire from large corporations and environmentalists. But it is saving lives in Southern Africa.

Uganda’s High Court recently ordered the health ministry to stop spraying the insecticide DDT in the northern part of the country. …… Given more than 300 Ugandan children die each day from malaria, delaying the indoor spraying of DDT will surely cost lives.

http://american.com/archive/2008/june-06-08/an-invaluable-insecticide