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Critical of campaign by Western environmental organizations to deter donor countries from providing developing countries with what has historically been a far cheaper and more effective insecticide than alternative methods and describes the relationship between decreased DDT use and a higher incidence of malaria cases in poor countries. Argues that there is no affordable DDT alternative for poor countries to switch to and that continued pressure on them by developed nations and their aid agencies and environmental groups to abandon its use would have negative public health ramifications.

Abstract
This article makes two central arguments: i) we can understand the current phase of anti-systemic movements predominantly through the globally expanding forms of resistance centered on environment, food, climate, soil, water, and so on as a collective socio-ecological critique and confrontation of the global capitalist relations of production; and ii) we can conceptually specify the global environmental justice movement through the notion of anti-systemic environmentalism expressing "the second contradiction of capitalism," i.e., the socio-ecological crisis of the capitalist world system. In making these arguments, it introduces the concept of the socio-ecological question, theoretically grounded in the value theory of nature, in establishing the world-historical relationality among diverse place-based socio-environmental movements.