Green Power, Black Death

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Green power, black death. It's axiomatic. Environmental colonialism started in the late 19th century, when wealthy Victorians began to see Africa as Eden, and created what is known as "fortress conservation." Fortress conservation requires the absence of actual people, so over the ensuing 100 years, vast areas of Africa were cleared of tribes, grazing rights were confiscated and -- presto! -- the current game reserves frequented by the compassionate rich looking for a little Happy Valley or Meryl Streep ("I had a faa-arrrm in Aaaaffriiiikkka") buzz.

Ask Niger Innis, the leader of CORE, the Congress for Racial Equality, one of the four organizational pillars of the civil rights movement in the States, what he thinks of our "compassion."

"It's time to hold these zealots accountable for the misery and death they cause," Innis states. Groups like Greenpeace, he says, and he includes the European Union and the United Nations in his criticism, serve their own "ideological agenda, and want to keep the Third World permanently mired in poverty, disease and death. So far, it has succeeded."

How? Let me count the ways. The near-global restrictions on the production, export and use of DDT has led to the re-emergence of malaria, which has killed many more millions than have died to date, from AIDS. The clearing of grazing lands for Africa Theme Parks has defrauded millions of Africans of land whereon they traditionally grew food and grazed cattle. And let's not get started on biotech foods. Late in 2002, the United States shipped 26,000 tons of corn to Zambia, where 2.5 million were on the verge of starvation. Parroting the Greenpeace, EU, Sierra, etc., shakedown line, President Levy Mwanawasa decreed it unsafe for consumption because it had been genetically modified to make it resistant to insects. The EU accused the United States of using Africans as guinea pigs. Hundreds of thousands continued to starve. Yet, Americans and Canadians have been consuming this corn for years. Biotech experts Gregory Conko and Dr. Henry Miller denounce the EU, UN and radical greens. Their "self-serving involvement in excessive, unscientific biotechnology regulation will slow agricultural R&D, promote environmental damage, and bring famine to millions." Patrick Moore argues that "the banning of Golden Rice, a GMO that may help prevent blindness in half a million children every year is rejected out of hand by these anti-humanists."

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