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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 […]
The Battle for Biotech Progress
“Greenpeace policy on genetics lacks any respect for logic or science” by Patrick Moore IPA Review (Institute of Public Affairs, Australia) March 2004 I was raised in the tiny fishing and logging village of Winter Harbour on the northwest tip of Vancouver Island, where salmon spawned in the streams of the adjoining Pacific rainforest. In […]
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: The greatest threat to Africa’s future
by Paul K. Driessen Congress of Racial Equality Press Release “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 […]
Third World Sweatshops
by Thomas Sowell Townhall.com January 2004 “Low-Wage Costa Ricans Make Baseballs for Millionaires.” That was the headline on one of those New York Times “news” stories that continued its recent tradition of disguised editorials. The headline said it all but the story ran on and on anyway, with details and quotes that added nothing to […]
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 […]