Everything in life is a tradeoff. There are no "solutions" to problems, because every solution must be accomplished using scarce resources that have alternative uses, and may carry unintended consequences.

> Banning DDT resulted in recovery.

It also caused more people to die of malaria[0,1].

> Same for the Endangered Species Act

And adds to worsening homelessness in the Bay Area[2], so much so that a recent infrastructure bill signed by the governor weakens many environmental protections[3].

Banning things is easy. We can just ban every modern convenience and go back to pre-Industrial Revolution living standards and drop our carbon emissions by 99%. But the hidden side of every success story that comes from a ban of whatever material or practice you can think of is the human toll at the other end.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1173321/

[1]: https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents...

[2]: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/woodside-blocks-ne...

[3]: https://www.kpbs.org/news/environment/2023/06/29/building-ca...