Bring Back DDT Now

The report at our church Sunday on  the just concluded annual conference of the United Methodist Church raised the issue of the millions who will die this year from malaria.  Many funds have been donated to buy nets which provide some temporary protection from mosquitoes while a person is sleeping.  As far as I know nothing was said about restoring the use of DDT, proven to be the most effective and safest insecticide ever produced. DDT saved millions of lives before some nuts who called themselves saving the environment got it banned. Why do we allow a few screwballs to do so much harm?  Are not people as important as, say a toad?  A lot of issues make me angry but the failure to use DDT to save millions of lives tops the list.  Why, I again ask why, do we allow this to continue?