The article goes well with Michael Crichton's speech a couple of months ago:
Fear, Complexity, & Environmental Management in the 21st Century
http://www.michaelcrichton.com/speeches/complexity/complexity.html
In that speech is a quote from Lowell Ponte in 1978. He's pretty big on Frontpagemag.com. I would guess he's turned around since then.
Funny to see him quoted as an environmental alarmist.