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Sam Andersen 243-35-4292 Professor Armstrong English 1200 28 March 2000 DICHLORODIPHENYLTRICHLOROETHANE Pests are living organisms that can threaten human existence. They can bring disease, famine, death and destruction to the human world. The United States loses up to forty percent of their production each year to pest, twenty percent of which is lost after harvest once stored. To control this mass destruction pesticides are created to kill pests and prevent their reproduction. The main groups of pesticides …

…in seventeen short years. It was the breakthrough technology that was going to save the world and it almost killed out a species. DDT has built up in the soil, water systems, and living organisms and will there for years to come. You will see the worldwide ban on DDT as soon as a better solution for the control of malaria is developed. Lets just hope that the government looks into that product more thoroughly.