--- Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a doctor, the notion of just allowing people to > starve to death is repulsive -- that's why groups > like > The Heifer Project, who promote environmentally > sustainable economic growth on a tiny scale (helping > individual families with training and starter > animals > like ducks, goats and cows etc.) are so worthy. > Lumping all environmentalists into the radical > fringe > is incorrect and misleading.
True, if it were true that attacking the Green Revolution was the radical fringe. It wasn't, at all. Paul Ehrlich, MacArthur "Genius" grant winner, best-selling author, one of the fathers of the modern environmental movement. If he's the fringe, then the whole _movement_ is the fringe. Stopping yellow rice - that's not a few loonies, that's a mass movement. Banning DDT in Third World countries - that's not the fringe, that's _everyone_. You've got a movement of a bunch of rich white people advocating policies that could not be more carefully designed to screw over poor brown people, patting themselves on the back over their virtue the whole time. And it isn't the radical fringes that advocates these things, and you can't pretend that it is. They're far too powerful for that. You want to compare and contrast? I'm not thrilled with the Administration's policies on contraception in the Third World, but they don't do much harm because they're totally unenforceable and fairly marginal in their impact even if they were. Retarding yellow rice means that millions of kids will go blind to salve the conscience of some people in the Upper East Side who probably drive SUVs to go to the grocery store. If I've got to choose between them and poor kids (and I do, since that's what they want), I know whose side I'm on. ===== 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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