http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/04/22/EDGKO68MID1.DTL
An excellent article by Nick Shulz and the co-founder of Green Peace on the failures of the environmental movement. My particular passion on this topic is easily explainable. Norman Borlaug has saved the lives of more people than _any other human being who has ever lived_. End of sentence. No other person in history has ever even come close. He did so by bringing the miracles of modern (largely American) agricultural technology to the Third World, particularly India. For this he won the Nobel Peace Prize, incidentally. For that, he has been largely reviled by most of the environmental movement, which generally believes that the world would have been better off if the countries of the Third World had been forced to "control their population" (by this they actually mean mass deaths through catastrophic famine, but hey, it was only a bunch of poor brown people, and Greenpeace and its cohort have never seemed to care at all about people like that). As a very small part of that, I have little doubt that quite a few members of my family are alive today because of his work - and that the so-called environmental movement thinks it would have been better for them to starve to death. My tolerance for such groups reaches some level far below minimal. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25� http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/print_splash
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