[Always Right]

But a pioneer of the environmental movement who left it because he viewed it as too radical, called the anti-electricity views an example of the "eco-imperialism" of the white upper-middle class who think it's "neat to have Africans with no electricity."

And they wonder why Bush did not attend their little racist KKK gathering?

[hattend]

I think you missed the context of Moore's comment. He is on the opposite side of the moron who wants to deprive the Africans of electricity.

Moore's a "reformed" environmentalist. No longer a radical.

[jjm2111]

That does it!! I'm going to unplug my computer and tell my boss I've given up electricity.

[HumanaeVitae]

Once you realize that this type of leftism--condoms instead of abstinence for AIDS in Africa, banning of DDT, implacable support for abortion--is concerned only with killing as many people as possible in the shortest possible time do you begin to understand where this guy is coming from.

Leftism is about power. Killing people is what leftism is about, because killing someone without any consequences is the ultimate expression of power.

[GaryMontana]

Europe and the rest of the world are blaming the US for failing the world's poor and destroying the environment. Tensions are emerging between those who want our money (Britain and most of the world) and the US even before the latest Earth Summit (which is meant to blame the USA for everything, as well as, take as much money from us as possible) in Johannesburg. See August 26th London Times.

Hmmm, now how many colonies did the USA have around the world? How many people did we enslave in Africa, Asia, and the rest of the world? Didn't the British Empire empirically control 1/3 of the world, what about France, Holland, Germany, Spain etc… Yet the world is blaming the USA because the world is poor.

Let those wonderful nations that put these people in poverty, used their cheap labor, and stole their minerals pay for the mess they created.

THE USA IS NOT TO BLAME. Perhaps Europe should look themselves in the mirror for most of the problems of the world. The third world is also to blame for their problems. They often created their mess through their corrupted leaders. The USA has no share in the blame, and we should refuse to accept any guilt. Perhaps the rest of the world should learn to fix their problems, instead of using the USA, Christians, Jews or Israel as whipping boys to blame all their own failings on.

Two last questions. Couldn't the poor in the world have been helped by giving all the money it cost to create this conference to them? Wouldn't the environment be better off with out the waste of fossil fuels it took to get to this conference? If these people don't care enough to send their money to the poor and help the environment, why should we?