Whats the cost?

After this weeks reading we learned how unconservative and selfish humans are, as if we already didn't know. It is truly baffling to comprehend the use of over 200 gallons of chemicals used on one acre of land. What makes it worse is as repercussions began to occur the use continued, again, and again. Commonly a theory called the greater good theory is applied when decisions are made that affect the population in high risk situations. Although that couldn’t possibly be the case in this scenario. It is unclear what took so long for the government and even the President to wake up after these occurrences. In this case how is the cost of many different species including humans at risk worth the eradication of a pesky insect. Although the damage done from them is substantial; the way we got about facing it is catastrophic. Giving the benefit of the doubt, (as if they deserve it) perhaps when the spraying began the dangers of the chemicals were not known. But as time went on the spraying of even more toxic chemicals persisted even after the repercussions from prior attempts of DDT. It is truly disgusting to think of how fueled by money we are as an ever developing economy. In the book it discusses how the pilots were paid by the gallon, not the acre. In no way were the chemicals conserved, but instead dropped in force by planes with complete disregard to the animals below. It was baffling to hear that a quarter horse, such a large animal could be killed just by one spraying landing into his water trough. With chemicals that strong it could undoubtedly wipe out humans. That however is not important to producers, they just want the money to keep coming in. The spraying of DDT eradicated nothing. Instead it killed thousands of unintended targets. At what cost does this become okay, because to me nothing is truly worth the suffering of so many species.