Eco-Imperialism's Deadly Legacy [world's brown population is better dead than alive and reproducing]

FoxNews.com/frontpagemag ^ | December 5, 2003 | Steven Milloy

[SJackson]

A compassionate environmentalist report has concluded the world's brown population is “better dead than alive and riotously reproducing.”

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 of questions have been raised about the link between carbon dioxide and climate change which do not appear convincing and clearly it sets very serious brakes on economic growth which do not look justified,” said an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The treaty’s scientific and economic shortcomings are both excellent reasons for rejecting it. Another reason not mentioned nearly often enough, however, is exposed in compelling fashion by Paul Driessen in his new book Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death.

Driessen, a senior fellow at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation and a former member of the Sierra Club and Zero Population Growth, reveals how the ideological environmental movement -- essentially comprised of wealthy, left-leaning Americans and Europeans -- wants to impose its views on billions of poor, desperate Africans, Asians and Latin Americans.

Eco-imperialism violates these people’s most basic human rights, maintains Driessen, and denies them economic opportunities, the chance for better lives, and the right to rid their countries of diseases that were vanquished long ago in the U.S. and Europe.

Hollywood actor and eco-imperialist Ed Begley Jr., for example, preaches that “the two most abundant forms of power on Earth are solar and wind…It’s much cheaper for everybody in Africa to have electricity where they need it, on their huts.”

Drissen points out, however, that while solar panels would be a major improvement over “current” conditions in many areas of the third world, they are but a band-aid approach to the developing world’s critical electrical deficiency.

“They cannot possibly provide sufficient power for anything more than basic necessities, and large-scale photovoltaic electricity is far more expensive than what is produced by coal, natural gas, nuclear or hydroelectric pants. Wind power has the same shortcomings. For impoverished countries where few have access to electricity, these are not idle considerations,” writes Driessen.

The environmental movement “has repeatedly used the alleged threat of global eco-catastrophe -- e.g., global warming -- to override the wishes of people who most desperately need energy and progress,” he adds.

In India’s Gujarat Province, a dam project was halted after eco-activists pressured international lending agencies to withdraw financial support. The dam had to be stopped because it would “change the path of the river, kill little creatures along its banks and uproot tribal people in the area,” one eco-activist smugly intoned.

“The local ‘tribal people,’ however, don’t appear to appreciate her intervention,” offers Driessan. “One resident angrily called the activists’ handiwork ‘a crime against humanity,’ because the project would have provided electricity for 5,000 villages; low-cost renewable power for industries and sewage treatment plants; irrigation water for crops; and clean water for 35 million people.”

Driessan’s book isn’t limited to global warming and third world energy problems. The chapter “Sustainable Mosquitoes -- Expendable People” describes the ongoing tragedy of the eco-activist crusade against DDT.

“Our family and community are suffering and dying from [malaria], and too many Europeans and environmentalists only talk about protecting the environment,” says 34-year old Ugandan businesswoman with malaria. “But what about the people? 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,” she added.

The Ugandan woman is only one of more than 300 million annual victims of malaria in the third world. Between 2-3 million die every year. “Over half the victims are children, who die at a rate of two per minute or 3,000 per day -- the equivalent of 80 fully loaded school buses plunging over a cliff every day of the year,” explains Driessen.

Despite this ongoing public health horror story, the United Nations Environment Programme, World Bank, Greenpeace, Pesticide Action Network, World Wildlife Fund, Physicians for Social Responsibility and other eco-imperialist groups oppose the use of DDT -- the only practical solution to the malaria crisis. The eco-imperialists’ disturbing attitude toward the third world is perhaps most frighteningly described by Robert S. Desowitz in another must-read, The Malaria Capers (W.W. Norton, 1991).

Desowitz reports a U.S. Agency for International Development official named Edwin Cohn as saying, “The third world didn’t require a healthy labor force because there was a surplus of workers; better some people should be sick with malaria and spread the job opportunities around.” Even more bluntly, Cohn reportedly said people in the third world were “better [off] dead than alive and riotously reproducing.”

There should be no question, then, about Eco-Imperialism’s subtitle: Green power does indeed mean black death.

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Steven Milloy is the publisher of JunkScience.com, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and the author of Junk Science Judo: Self-defense Against Health Scares and Scams (Cato Institute, 2001).

[samtheman]

the ideological environmental movement -- essentially comprised of wealthy, left-leaning Americans and Europeans -- wants to impose its views on billions of poor, desperate Africans, Asians and Latin Americans

Bottom line. Liberals are the reincarnation of Old European Aristocracy.

[evad]

KEYWORD sez it all..junk treaty based on JUNKSCIENCE.

[BenLurkin]

In India’s Gujarat Province, a dam project was halted after eco-activists pressured international lending agencies to withdraw financial support. The dam had to be stopped because it would “change the path of the river, kill little creatures along its banks and uproot tribal people in the area,” one eco-activist smugly intoned.

“The local ‘tribal people,’ however, don’t appear to appreciate her intervention,” offers Driessan. “One resident angrily called the activists’ handiwork ‘a crime against humanity,’ because the project would have provided electricity for 5,000 villages; low-cost renewable power for industries and sewage treatment plants; irrigation water for crops; and clean water for 35 million people.”

Outrageous.

[samtheman]

Absolutely. I think this should be raised as a big issue by the Bush campaign. Short ads talking about how wrong the Kyoto treaty is and how wrong Dean is for wanting to support it. It's a truly scary prospect, having a President who would sign such a lousy worthless bill in the name of "science", which is in reality junk science.

[marty60]

No not quite. If you study the real policies of the Socialist (Nazi's), commies, and numerous societies, Egyptian, Paraquay, etc etc. The Aztecs are especially on point. Their pratice of sacrifice was not solving their problems, but rather than seek a new solution. The increased the sacrifices until the streets ran red with blood. Ofcourse, it did not save their savage society.(p)Rather than provide electricity for cooking, and gas for heating. The eviro nazi's would rather all the trees be cut down for use. But, no that is a problem too. Therefore, get rid of the people. When bloodthirsty, ignorant people get together, the normal people better watch out. It may be YOUR group that is deemed,LIFE UNWORTHY OF LIFE.

[Jacquerie]

The left murdered millions in Russia, China, North Korea, Cambodia. . . and they are still at it.

[Savage Beast]

Through political activism and support of willing politicians, ENORMOUSLY WEALTHY "environmentalist charities" fund the establishment some of the most oppressive, tyrranical, and unjust government burocracies in American history, giving tyrranical, cruel, and unworthy burocrats enormous power over ordinary people, and enacting unjust, exploitive, draconian laws. These burocrats tend to be petty tyrants--bullies--intoxicated with power. Some are sadistic.

One struggles to understand why anyone of good will would allow such a sorry scheme of things to become established.

One struggles to understand why anyone of good will would encourage powerful, oppressive government. It is an invitation to tyrrany.

Government is a necessary evil--necessary, of course, but also, always evil. It enforces its authority by violence or threat of violence.

Of course government is necessary, but the bigger the government, the greater the evil. The size and scope--and consequently the tyrrany--of government should be kept to a minimum.

People should withhold money from such "environmentalist charities".

[Savage Beast]

"the ideological environmental movement -- essentially comprised of wealthy, left-leaning Americans and Europeans -- wants to impose its views on billions of poor, desperate Africans, Asians and Latin Americans"...

...and North Americans.

[Destructor]

"The Ugandan woman is only one of more than 300 million annual victims of malaria in the third world. Between 2-3 million die every year. “Over half the victims are children, who die at a rate of two per minute or 3,000 per day -- the equivalent of 80 fully loaded school buses plunging over a cliff every day of the year,” explains Driessen."

Imagine the outcry from the Left, if these deaths had been the result of accidents with firearms. This is just more proof of the true definition of "compassion" from the Left.

[Stultis]

But the little brown people are happy in their mud huts!</enviro-limo-lefty mode>

[ClearCase_guy]

I have a relative who opposes DDT and does not much care how many people die from malaria. "It hurts the birds." Same relative opposes genetically modified plants and does not much care that millions starve because of inadequate access to food. "Those plants hurt butterflies."

The Left has no compassion for humans. None. That's why they went ballistic over the whole "Compassionate Conservative" concept. Conservatives ARE compassionate and the Left hates us for it.

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

Having just come back from India, I can report that they are, in fact, happy. The least happy people were the emerging middle class.

If you have enough to eat, a few clothes to wear and place to sleep, combined with human beings around you that you love, large amounts of material wealth are not necessary for being happy.

Gosh, you know the last paragraph I wrote sounds an awful lot like the preachings of a famous philosopher. What was his name? Oh, right - Jesus.

It s fine to complain about how leftist environmentalist policies potentially hinder economic development, but don't forget not to offer alternative solutions and that wealth and happiness are not one and the same.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.

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[E.G.C.]

BTT!!!!!!

[PhilipFreneau]

>> The left murdered millions in Russia, China, North Korea, Cambodia. . . and they are still at it.

You forgot Europe. Hitler was a leftist, too.

[Pearls Before Swine]

A compassionate environmentalist report has concluded the world's brown population is “better dead than alive and riotously reproducing.”

If you think that sounds harsh, imagine what they would prefer for the fate of the middle class white Westerner.

[XBob]

2-"Bottom line. Liberals are the reincarnation of Old European Aristocracy."

let them eat cake!

[theFIRMbss]

>"...the project would have provided ... low-cost renewable power for industries ...”
>>Outrageous.

"In the Dec. 3, 1984, accident, toxic methyl isocyanate gas — an ingredient in pesticides — leaked from Union Carbide's pesticide plant in Bhopal in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, killing thousands and contaminating water and soil within a one-mile (1.5-kilometer) radius. Over the years, the death toll has risen to 14,410 as those sickened by the gas died. Survivors complain of ailments including breathlessness, constant tiredness, stomach pain, cardiac problems, and tuberculosis."

On the other hand, people in India know that "industry" there is not the same as regulated industry in the Western world...