Brochure
Eco-Imperialism
Green Power, Black Death
About the Book
<p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 6">This book should have been written years ago. It reveals a dark secret of the ideological environmental movement. The movement imposes the views of mostly wealthy, comfortable Americans and Europeans on mostly poor, desperate Africans, Asians and Latin Americans. It violates these people’s most basic human rights, denying them economic opportunities, the chance for better lives, the right to rid their countries of diseases that were vanquished long ago in Europe and the United States. Even worse, in league with the European Union, United Nations and other bureaucrats, the movement stifles vigorous, responsible debate over energy, pesticides, biotechnology and trade. It prevents needy nations from using the very technologies that developed countries employed to become rich, comfortable and free of disease. And as a consequence, it sends millions of infants, children, men and women to early graves every year.</p>
<p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 6">The ideological environmental movement is a powerful $4-billion-a-year US industry, an $8-billion-a-year international gorilla. Many of its members are intensely eco-centric, and seem to believe that wildlife and ecological values are more important than human progress or even human life.</p>
<p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 6">As this book forcefully points out, these radical activists have now wrapped their ideologies up in several elastic principles that focus on perceived environmental threats and largely ignore human needs.... What makes Eco-Imperialism unique, though, is not just its insightful analysis of corporate and environmental “ethics”, but its reliance on personal, sometimes angry observations by people from less developed countries, who must bear the brunt of these misguided environmental policies.</p>
<p align="justify" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 6">Driessen does a masterful job of stripping away the radicals’ mantle of virtue, dissecting their bogus claims and holding them to the moral and ethical standards they have long demanded for everyone except themselves. And he does so with humor, outrage and passion – and always without pulling any punches. Every concerned citizen and policymaker should read this book. The environmentalists will hate it. The world’s destitute masses will love it. And everyone will be challenged by it to reexamine their beliefs and the environmental establishment’s claims.</p>
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<p style="margin-left: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 4">The environmental movement I helped found has lost its objectivity, morality and humanity. The pain and suffering it is inflicting on families in developing countries must no longer be tolerated. This book is the first one I've seen that tells the truth and lays it on the line. It's a must-read for anyone who cares about people, progress and our planet.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 60; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">— Patrick Moore</p>
<p style="margin-left: 75; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 12">Greenpeace co-founder</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 4">Paul Driessen has given us an amazing tour de force. He explores one of today's most perplexing problems: the environmentally sensitive rich demanding that the Third World's poor forego feeding themselves, solving their health and energy problems, and taking their rightful place among the earth's prosperous people. Eco-Imperialism provides terrific intellectual ammunition and is outstandingly written. Very gripping to read.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 60; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">— Rabbi Daniel Lapin</p>
<p style="margin-left: 75; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 12">Toward Tradition</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 4">Developing countries need to be free to make their own decisions about how to improve their people's lives. Activists who've never had to worry about starvation, malaria and simple survival have no right to impose their fears, prejudices and ideologies on the world's poor. That's the central message of this book. It's a message that needs to be spread far and wide.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 60; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">— CS Prakash</p>
<p style="margin-left: 75; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 12">Professor of plant genetics<br />
Tuskegee University</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 4">Driessen does a masterful job of stripping away the radicals’ mantle of virtue, dissecting their bogus claims and holding them to the moral and ethical standards they have long demanded for everyone except themselves. And he does so with humor, outrage and passion – and always without pulling any punches. Every concerned citizen and policymaker should read this book. The environmentalists will hate it. The world’s destitute masses will love it. And everyone will be challenged by it to reexamine their beliefs and the environmental establishment’s claims.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 60; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">— Niger Innis</p>
<p style="margin-left: 75; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 12">Congress of Racial Equality</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 4">As the author Paul Driessen, forcefully points out, the precautionary principle may safeguard healthy people in wealthy developed countries from risks associated with conjectural, or concocted, environmental catastrophes. But it does so by imposing real, immediate, life-threatening risks on the world’s most powerless and impoverished people – denying them the chance for better lives and thereby perpetuating the misery, malnutrition, disease and premature death that suffocate hopes, opportunities and lives in poor nations...</p>
<p style="margin-left: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 4">... It is a battle that must be fought – and one that can be won. In so doing, we can prove to India and the world that poor people have every right to enjoy the health and prosperity that so many in the West accept as their birthright. And that protecting the environment does not have to mean trampling on the hopes and human rights of the developing world.</p>
<p style="margin-left: 60; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">— Deepak Lal</p>
<p style="margin-left: 75; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">James S. Coleman Professor of International<br />
Development Studies at the University of<br />
California, Los Angeles, and<br />
Professor Emeritus of Political Economy,<br />
University College, London<br />
(Excerpts from the Foreword)</p>
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