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Unfortunately for sub-Saharan Africans and some Asians, the U.S. ban on DDT has made this cheap (though [[teratogenic]]) chemical<ref>[http://extoxnet.orst.edu/pips/ddt.htm Toxicology Network]</ref> very difficult to obtain. This helped lead to a renewed [[malaria epidemic]], and more than one million people die of malaria every year.  
 
Unfortunately for sub-Saharan Africans and some Asians, the U.S. ban on DDT has made this cheap (though [[teratogenic]]) chemical<ref>[http://extoxnet.orst.edu/pips/ddt.htm Toxicology Network]</ref> very difficult to obtain. This helped lead to a renewed [[malaria epidemic]], and more than one million people die of malaria every year.  
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There is a controversy over malaria eradication. While most Americans are in favor of relieving third-world people of the scourge of preventable disease, some prominent Westerners oppose anything that would lead to increases in population (see [[population control]]).  
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There is a controversy over malaria eradication. While most Americans are in favor of relieving [[third-world]] people of the scourge of preventable disease, some prominent Westerners oppose anything that would lead to increases in population (see [[population control]]).  
 
*[[Club of Rome]] founder [[Alexander King]] said, "My chief quarrel with DDT in [[hindsight]] is that it greatly added to the population problem."
 
*[[Club of Rome]] founder [[Alexander King]] said, "My chief quarrel with DDT in [[hindsight]] is that it greatly added to the population problem."
 
*Oceanographer [[Jacques Cousteau]] told Novelle Observateur, "In order to stabilize world populations, we must eliminate 350,000 people a day." [http://www.aim.org/guest_column/5456_0_6_0_C/]
 
*Oceanographer [[Jacques Cousteau]] told Novelle Observateur, "In order to stabilize world populations, we must eliminate 350,000 people a day." [http://www.aim.org/guest_column/5456_0_6_0_C/]
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