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By Paul Driessen
Eco-Imperialism – Green and Gold
by Paul K. Driessen Eco-Imperialism.com April 2004 “What about the people?” asks Fifi Kobusingye, a designer and businesswoman in Kampala, Uganda. “The mosquitoes are everywhere. You think you’re safe, and you’re not. Europeans and Americans can afford to deceive themselves about malaria and pesticides. But we can’t.” “If we don’t use DDT,” adds David Nabarro, director of […]
Eco-Imperialism: Reflections on Earth Day
Eco-Imperialism: Reflections on Earth Day It’s time to focus on the needs of the Earth’s poorest people, say experts at National Press Club event Washington, DC. “Safeguarding environmental values is essential,” Niger Innis, national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality, told journalists and others attending an Earth Day discussion today at the National Press Club. “But we […]
Delaying Biotechnology
Who pays? by Paul K. Driessen Maui News April 2004 Last summer’s long anticipated trip to Hawaii left me captivated by its magnificent mountains, beaches, flora, agriculture and people. Intrigued by its politics as well, I began to follow policy debates over certain environmental matters. The growing clamor over agricultural biotechnology seems out of place in a […]
Power to the people?
by Paul K. Driessen TechCentralStation.com April 2004 On January 22, Citigroup directors and executives fell all over each other, rushing to claim their Ethical Oscar from the radical activist group, Rainforest Action Network. Henceforth, promised Citi, it would dramatically scale back investment in developing country projects that some might perceive as being socially or ecologically […]
The Unecessary Scourge
by Paul K. Driessen TechCentralStation.com April 2004 “My friend’s four-year-old child hasn’t been able to walk for months because of malaria,” Ugandan farmer and businesswoman Fiona “Fifi” Kobusingye says softly. “She crawls around on the floor. Her eyes bulge out like a chameleon, her hair is dried up, and her stomach is all swollen because […]
The Senate’s Stockholm Syndrome
by Paul K. Driessen TechCentralStation.com April 2004 The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs treaty) will soon become binding international law. The stage is now set for potential U.S. Senate ratification of a document that will allow U.N. and other international bureaucrats to implement future global bans on various chemicals and give the Environmental […]
Give the Gift of Life
by Paul K. Driessen TechCentralStation & Knight Ridder Tribune December 29, 2003 During this holiday season, many of us were focused even more than usual on helping people and making the world a better place. Seemingly endless solicitations bid us to support causes that seem eminently worthy. Well-fed, safe in our modern homes, minutes away […]
Truth and Propaganda
Response to December 12, 2003 Bangladesh Daily Star article by Nizam Ahmad and Paul K. Driessen Bangladesh Daily Star December 2003 Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton recently said “the greatest challenge facing mankind is distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda,” especially in the realm of environmentalism. Few articles better illustrate the importance of meeting this challenge […]
Russia’s common sense on global climate change
by Paul K. Driessen Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services October 2003 WASHINGTON, DC, October 2003 ¾ Kudos to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Not only did he resist intense pressure from French President Jacques Chirac and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan – and announce that Russia was not going to ratify the controversial Kyoto global climate change treaty anytime soon. He also demonstrated that his […]
Electricity – A basic human right
Blackouts remind us what life is like without electricity by Paul K. Driessen Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services September 2003 WASHINGTON, DC, September 2003 ¾ The great Northeast power failure and Hurricane Isabel reminded millions of Americans what it’s like to be without electrical power. Schools, offices, factories and water purification plants closed. Lights, computers, televisions, telephones, stoves, refrigerators, […]