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Paul DriessenPaul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Congress of Racial Equality and a senior fellow with the Commitee For A Constructive Tomorrow, Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise and the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. Formally educated as a geologist and field ecologist with a BA degree from Lawrence University, he later joined the Sierra Club and Zero Population Growth. Over time he grew to disagree with the philosophies of these organizations, accusing them of being too hardline in their views to the point that they were valuing the environment over people. In 2003, Driessen published Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death, ISBN 0939571234, in which he lists his problems with the environmental movement. In 2005, he wrote: - Poor countries need sustained development, not sustainable development, if they are ever to take what Rabbi Daniel Lapin calls "their rightful place among the Earth's prosperous people."
- Opposition to centralized electricity and economic projects, support for "sustainable development" and "appropriate" forms of small-scale renewable energy projects, and an attachment to romanticized visions of "indigenous" cultures, are merely different facets of the anti-human attitudes that dominate so much of environmentalist thought today. They are ingredients in a recipe for sustained poverty, misery, disease and premature death.
- They need to be resisted not -- applauded or promoted by every ethical and socially responsible CEO, politician, journalist, clergyman and citizen. For its part, the environmental movement needs to do some serious soul-searching, and begin to abide by the same rules of honesty, transparency, morality, accountability and concern for people's lives that it demands of everyone else. http://www.sepp.org/NewSEPP/Sustain.htm
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