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Eco Myths Revealed
Eco-Imperialism.com October 2004 Much of the anti-DDT hysteria generated by Rachel Carson in Silent Spring, and by assorted eco-activists, involved erroneous and even fraudulent scientific studies. In one, a researcher reported that mice fed DDT developed cancer – but withheld the fact that mice which were not fed DDT actually developed more cancers than did those fed DDT. The oft-cited […]
The wheels are coming off the wind energy gravy train
A common claim in the news stories is that we are actually an oil-and-gas funded entity. They’ve tied us to the Koch Brothers. We all wish. Apparently they cannot believe that individuals and local groups can think for themselves and impact public policy, without a puppet master telling us what to do and say.
Time to terminate Big Wind subsidies
The battle over wind energy subsidies in America is heating up. After suffering defeat in four straight efforts to extend the Production Tax Credit, Big “Wind lobbyists have greatly expanded their efforts to secure enough Democrat and Republican votes to transfer still more billions from US taxpayers and ratepayers to industrial wind companies that would not survive without more handouts.
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 […]
Banned U.S. pesticide could save millions in Africa
DDT Saves Lives by Chicago Sun-Times Chicago Sun-Times April 2004 This is what writer Hilary Spurling says about the female bloodsucker, otherwise known as the flying needle of death: “She is elegantly constructed, miraculously adaptable and prodigiously efficient. She can deposit 30 or 40 malarial parasites in the human bloodstream at a single bite. Within […]
FrontPage interview with author Paul Driessen
FrontPage interview with author Paul Driessen by Jamie Glazov FrontPageMagazine.com February 2004 Frontpage Interview has the pleasure to have Paul Driessen as its guest today. Mr. Driessen is a senior fellow with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise and Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow — and the director […]
CORE holds teach-in, demands end to eco-imperialism
Greenpeace co-founder denounces his former colleagues by Congress of Racial Equality Congress of Racial Equality Press Release January 21, 2004 NEW YORK. The Congress of Racial Equality, one of America’s premier civil rights organizations, convened a teach-in January 20, at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers. “Eco-Imperialism: The global green movement’s war on the developing […]
Eco-Imperialism’s Deadly Consequences
by Steven Milloy Fox New’s Junk Science December 2003 The United Nations’ global warming bureaucracy is meeting (vacationing?) in Milan this week pondering how to revive the beleaguered international global warming treaty known as the Kyoto Protocol. This week’s news that Russia might say “nyet” to the treaty all but seals its doom. “A number […]
The Battle of Valle Verde
Mexican campesinas choose biotechnology over fear by Ronald Bailey Eco-Imperialism.com September 2003 VALLE VERDE, Quintana Roo, Mexico, September 2003 — This dusty hamlet of tin and scrap wood shacks outside Cancun just off the main road to Merida became the latest battleground in the global war over genetically enhanced crops. The occasion was the distribution […]