Someone in the WHO needs to read Silent Spring by Racheal Carson before even 'thinking' about bringing back DDT or any other chlorinated hydrocarbons.
It took us decades and probably billions of dollars to clean up our rivers and streams and lakes; I'm still not sure whether they ever would be free of persistent pesticides resudues, such as DDT.
What we need is the development of bio-pesticides; when I wanted to work on Bacillus thuringensis, the spores of which are fatal to certain larval stages, and completely safe otherwise, there was no such program available then, and probably even now...
It's a matter profits, both for farmers and pesticide manufacturers, they want want/need quick-kill/knockdown type of pesticides to control before crop damage...
It's all about the bottomline, and Mother Nature and her children are the ultimate victims...