>There is a graduate student in Sweden named Bo Husqvarnaquistholm who is closely aligned with Bjorn Lomborg, the self-described skeptical environmentalist who favors
global warming<
heck, if I lived in Sweden, maybe I'd favor global warming too.
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Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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> From: Louis Proyect [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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> Devine, James wrote:
>
> > Mark Jones writes:>Those who want to silence such
> authentic voices of
> > the oppressed women of the South as Vandana Shiva are its servants.<
> >
> > could you name someone who wants to _silence_ Shiva? as opposed to
> > simply disagreeing with her opinions and thus being willing to
> > criticize them?
> >
> > (BTW, is it some government that wants to silence her?
> people on the
> > left don't have the power to do so.)
> >
>
> I think I know whom Mark is referring to. There is a graduate
> student in
> Sweden named Bo Husqvarnaquistholm who is closely aligned with Bjorn
> Lomborg, the self-described skeptical environmentalist who favors
> global warming, genetically modified food and keeping the beef fat on
> Mcdonald's french fries. Husqvarnaquistholm is working on a
> dissertation
> as I understand it which implicitly defends the need to
> reintroduce DDT.
> He argues that if Great Britain survived without condors, so can the
> rest of the world. Husqvarnaquistholm is not only completely
> wrapped up
> in this ideology, he is also a bit manic it seems. Well, when Shiva
> showed up at his college last year to speak on GM crops, he
> attacked her
> with a chainsaw. As I understand it, she survived with minor cuts and
> scratches.
>
> --
>
> Louis Proyect
> www.marxmail.org
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