Tag: DDT
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Don’t Waste Time or Money on ‘Silent Earth’
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2021 (Oct. 3, 2021) — Book reviews usually tell people, buy this new hardback. This article advises, don’t bother reading Silent Earth, much less purchasing a copy; it’s mostly a junk-science, anti-technology screed. Dave Goulson’s book expands on Silent Spring, Rachel Carson’s polemic against pesticides that helped rid Europe and the…
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Fighting for Energy and Human Rights Equality in Africa
THE CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY UGANDA HAS LOST ANOTHER LEADER, BUT THE FIGHT CONTINUES by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Feb. 26, 2019) — “She has gone to the Lord,” her sister Diana told me a few days ago. And with Fiona Kobusingye’s passing, after a courageous battle with cancer, the Congress of Racial Equality Uganda lost…
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The Fake “Trump is Racist” Issue
TRUMP’S WORDS ARE FAR LESS DESPICABLE THAN WHAT GREEN-DEMOCRAT POLICIES DO TO PEOPLE by Paul Driessen, ©2018 (Jan. 20, 2018) — By now, nearly the entire world has heard reports that President Trump referred to the origins of some immigrants as “sh**hole countries.” Democrats and their media allies spent an entire week castigating the president,…
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What Natural Disasters Should Teach Us
HURRICANES, LANDSLIDES AND OTHER DISASTERS SHOW AFRICANS WHY WE NEED FOSSIL FUELS by Steven Lyazi, ©2017 (Sep. 29, 2017) — I express my deepest sympathies to the people in the Caribbean and United States who have been impacted by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. The loss of life was tragic but has thankfully been much…
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Enemies of Humanity
MOSQUITOES AND UNCARING ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS PERPETUATE POVERTY, DISEASE AND DEATH by Steven Lyazi, ©2017 (Jul. 26, 2017) — After being infected again with malaria last July, I spent almost a month in a Kampala hospital. Paying for my treatment was extremely difficult, as it is for most Ugandan and African families. I was lucky I…
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Environmentalist Insurance Policies
INTELLECTUAL AMMO FOR HOLIDAY PARTY RESPONSES TO CLAIMS THAT YOU NEED METEORITE INSURANCE by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Dec. 18, 2016) — Many liberals went into denial, outrage and riot mode after November 8. Now they’re having meltdown over President-Elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees with climate and environmental responsibilities: Former Texas Governor Rick Perry at Energy,…
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Roundup the Corrupt Fear Mongers
DECEIT AND COLLUSION DRIVE CAMPAIGNS TO BAN A VITAL, POPULAR, SAFE, AFFORDABLE HERBICIDE by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Nov. 6, 2016) — Do we really need more collusion, corruption and deceit in the service of renegade regulators, organic food interests, anti-chemical activists, and policies that carry harmful or even lethal consequences? Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup,…
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Blood Cell Phones and Teslas
TOO MANY “GREEN” POLICIES BLEED RED, HURTING THE ENVIRONMENT AND KILLING PEOPLE by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Oct. 8, 2016) — Leonardo DiCaprio made millions for portraying smuggler Danny Archer in the film “Blood Diamond,” which supported mostly unworkable and now defunct efforts to certify that diamonds did not come from “conflict” areas. He loves modern gadgets…
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Confusion, Muddle, Obfuscation and Racism
AS OBAMA, UN AND EPA SEEK TO DICTATE OUR LIVES AND LIVELIHOODS, THE REAL ISSUE IS GREEN RACISM by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Sep. 10, 2016) — Winston Churchill called Russia a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. We could say Obama’s energy and climate policy is confusion wrapped in muddled thinking inside obfuscation…
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Keeping the Poor Impoverished
CALLOUS ECO-IMPERIALISTS USE LIES, SCARE STORIES TO DENY POOR COUNTRIES BETTER LIVING STANDARDS by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Jul. 24, 2016) — We are just now entering the age of industrialization, newly elected President Rodrigo Duterte said recently, explaining why the Philippines will not ratify the Paris climate accords. “Now that we’re developing, you will impose a…
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When Will Africa Get Healthy and Prosperous?
WHEN WILL ITS LEADERS FOCUS ON VITAL ISSUES AFFECTING ITS PEOPLE, INSTEAD OF LINING THEIR POCKETS? by Steven Lyazi, ©2016 (Jul. 14, 2016) — Africa is still battling “transitional periods,” from slavery and colonialism, to neocolonialism and eco-imperialism. Its wars, diseases and suffering will never end until we stop having greedy leaders who only care about…
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We Don’t Need Billion$ to Prevent Zika
CONTROLLING MOSQUITOES AND PREVENTING DISEASES REQUIRES SMARTER POLICIES, NOT MORE BILLIONS by Paul Driessen and Robert Novak, ©2016 (May 7, 2016) — The Zika virus is increasingly linked to serious neurological complications for pregnant women and microcephaly in newborns: smaller than normal heads and brains. It also affects areas of fetal brains that control basic…
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What Happened on Oahu Didn’t Stay on Oahu
SCIENTIFIC DETECTIVE WORK STOPPED CHOLERA – NOW IT NEEDS TO SEPARATE MYTHS, MITES AND NEONICS by Paul Driessen, ©2016 (Mar. 27, 2016) — If modern activist groups held sway in the mid-nineteenth century, countless multitudes would have died from typhoid fever and cholera. The “miasma” paradigm held that the diseases were caused by foul air arising…
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Mass Murderers and Radical Environmentalists
WHICH HAS KILLED MORE PEOPLE? by Paul R. Hollrah, ©2016 (Feb. 8, 2016) — If we were to compile a list of history’s most prolific mass murderers, who would we put on our list? Attila the Hun ravaged the Roman Empire during the 5th Century, killing and maiming all who stood in his way. In the 13th…
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A Conversation…or a Lecture?
POPE FRANCIS AND ALL OF US COULD LEARN A LOT FROM AN ACTUAL CONVERSATION ON ENERGY AND CLIMATE by Paul Driessen, ©2015 (Oct. 4, 2015) — We must “enter into dialogue with all people about our common home,” Pope Francis recently told the US Congress, frequently quoting from his Laudato Si encyclical. “We need a…
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Radical Environmentalism’s Death Campaigns
ITS ANTI-DDT WAR IS A LETHAL “DEATH-RATE SOLUTION” IMPOSED ON THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES by Paul Driessen, ©2015 (Mar. 22, 2015) — The terms racism, white supremacy, crimes against humanity are bandied about so often that they have become almost meaningless. But they are absolutely appropriate in an arena where they are too rarely applied: radical environmentalism’s…
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Holding Greenpeace Accountable
POOR COUNTRIES SHOULD HOLD BIG GREEN GROUPS AND DIRECTORS LIABLE FOR DEATHS, RAVAGE THEY CAUSE by Paul Driessen, ©2014 (Jul. 5, 2014) — Fossil fuel and insurance company executives “could face personal liability for funding climate denialism and opposing policies to fight climate change,” Greenpeace recently warned several corporations. In a letter co-signed by WWF…
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A Bee in Their Bonnet
ANTI-PESTICIDE ACTIVISTS FALSELY BLAME NEW PESTICIDES FOR BEE COLONY PROBLEMS by Paul Driessen, ©2013 (May 19, 2013) — Chemophobic anti-pesticide groups are at it again. This time they’re attacking a widely used and safe new insecticide, but their assertions and real agendas are nothing new. Radical environmentalism rose to ascendancy on opposition to pesticides, specifically DDT.…
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If Government is Arrogance, The EPA Is Fascism!
“THE ENEMY OF ALL AMERICANS” by Ron Ewart, ©2013, Founder of The Parallax Prophecies Institute (Mar. 31, 2013) — Note: This is our second article in the series of “Why Government is Your Enemy.” “The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the…