To the Editor:

The screening of the Rachel Carson film “Sense of Wonder” on Earth Day provides the Andover community with an extraordinary learning opportunity, a teachable moment you may wish to build on.

As you are possibly aware, the demonization of DDT by Rachel Carson and others has led to the avoidable deaths of roughly 2,000,000 Africans every year since DDT was banned by the EPA in 1972.

In addition to these unnecessary deaths (primarily from malaria), many more...