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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.

Environmental movements have produced some impressive results, including cleaner air and the preservation of selected species and places. But movements that challenged western prosperity and comfort seldom made much progress, and many radical environmentalists have been unabashed utopianists. In this short guide, Peterson del Mar untangles this paradox by showing how prosperity is essential to environmentalism. Industrialisation made conservation sensible, but also drove people to look for meaning in nature even as they consumed its products more relentlessly. Hence Englandled the wa.