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What an Unnecessary Disaster
Last month in Jonizi, South Africa, I watched my friend Jocky Gumede happily bounce his grandchild on his knee. The recent malaria epidemic had subsided, and Jocky was relieved that the child had escaped death — for this year, anyway. Jocky can’t erase the memory of the toll the disease has taken on his family. […]
Africa’s Deadliest Disease
by Fiona Kobusingye-Boynes Eco-Imperialism.com April 2004 Ask an American what malaria is, and he might say it’s a disease you can get from mosquitoes, if you travel to Africa, Asia orSouth America. That’s all. Few could even name one person who has ever had malaria. When my husband took me to a hospital in New York City a few weeks […]
Some Still Can’t Digest Idea of Biotech Food
by Henry I. Miller, MD Investor’s Business Daily April 2004 Anti-biotechnology activists claimed recently that “genetically modified” material (in minuscule amounts) has moved into and thereby “contaminates” conventionally produced seed supplies. As usual, they’re way off-base. In fact, it’s like finding Lexus parts in your Yugo. It’s not surprising that the activists’ claims are misleading. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Plants that Will Save Lives and Eyes
Over a third of the world’s population suffers anemia for lack of iron.Half are at risk for numerous diseases because they get too little zinc. A fourth receive so little vitamin A that they suffer incredible rates of blindness and death. But with help from a $25 million Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant, a […]