What DID cause the silent spring?
Keep in mind that the driving force in the EPA ban in 1972 was not science or the environment. William Ruckelshouse, the EPA Administrator, completly ignored all the recomendations of his own staff scientists when he banned DDT. It was the "Population Bomb" crap that the radicals were pushing and DDT became public enemy #1 because it was effective in stopping malaria and saving millions of lives in tropical (i.e. non-white) countries.