Do-gooder environmentalists often wreak havoc for no good reason in areas that the general public never hears about. One example is the banning of DDT even though there has never been any evidence that it causes cancer in humans, or damages bird eggs as was alleged in Rachel Carson's book "Silent Spring." Studies show that banning DDT has resulted in the deaths of millions of people from Malaria. Another example is banning lead in solder. This causes problems in electrical circuits, as discussed here. Banning lead in solder caused significant problems in the defense industry, where reliability is essential. The amount of lead used in solder would not create any health hazard, but environmentalists are absolutists who are not interested in cost-benefit analyses. There are a lot of other examples.