Eco-Imperialism, huh? Sounds About Right

Eco-Imperialism, huh? Sounds About Right

Steve Milloy's JunkScience column from FoxNews.com.

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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 (search) and a former member of the Sierra Club (search) and Zero Population Growth (search), 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 (search) 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.