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Civil Rights Group Blames Greens for Africans' Plight
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Morning Editor
January 16, 2004
(CNSNews.com) - A civil rights group says the global green movement is
oppressing poor people in the Third World, and the Congress of Racial
Equality will pitch that point of view at an upcoming conference in New
York.
"The movement imposes the views of mostly wealthy, comfortable Americans and
Europeans on mostly poor, desperate Africans, Asians and Latin Americans,"
said Niger Innis, the national spokesman for the Congress of Racial
Equality. "It violates their most basic human rights."
CORE announced it is holding a "teach-in" on Tuesday, Jan. 20, at which it
will "lay down the gauntlet" as far as the green movement is concerned.
"Eco-imperialism may not be a household word yet, but it will be after this
conference, the first one of its kind," Innis said.
The speakers will include Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore, who says
the environmental movement he 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," Moore was quoted as saying in a press release.
CORE said that in addition to Moore, experts from around the world will
demonstrate how environmental extremists deny destitute nations electricity
and worsen the poverty, malaria, malnutrition, TB and dysentery that kill
their people.
"This eco- manslaughter must end," CORE said.
The group noted that every year, malaria sickens 200 million people to the
point where they cannot work, go to school, tend their fields or care for
their families. Most of the cases are in sub-Saharan Africa, leaving that
region one of the most destitute on earth.
Two million people a year -- half of them children -- die of malaria. CORE
said a major reason for the malaria epidemic is a near-total ban on DDT,
promoted by radical greens and the World Health Organization.
Moreover, CORE said more than 2 billion people around the world have no
electricity or running water, and none of the basic necessities and
conveniences Americans take for granted, because of ideological opposition
to energy and economic development in the Third World.
"We must put humanity back into the environmental debate," says Innis. "We
all want to protect our planet. But we must stop trying to protect it from
bogus or illusory threats -- and on the backs, and the graves, of the
world's most powerless and impoverished people."
Speakers at the conference will include Roger Bate of the UK group Africa
Fighting Malaria; Cyril Boynes, Jr., and Niger Innis of CORE; Paul Driessen,
author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power-Black Death; Fiona Kobusingye, a
Ugandan businesswoman; Patrick Moore of Greenspirit in Canada; Deroy Murdock
of the Atlas Foundation; CS Prakash of Tuskegee University.
The Congress of Racial Equality is an outspoken critic of environmental
activists who back "sustainable development" - a phrase generally used to
describe earth-friendly projects that impose restrictions on how land may be
developed and who may use it.
Opponents, however, describe sustainable development as a conspiracy to
thwart economic growth and human progress.
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Atheism teaches that there is no God, hence no God-given rights. That
ideology coupled with a system that believed in the superiority of the state
at the expense of the individual was murderously synergistic.
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