Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Congress of Racial Equality, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow and Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power · Black Death (www.Eco-Imperialism.com) Paul Driessen may be contacted by email here:

Proposed Polar Bear ESA listing threatens you: Global warming regulations will come at you hard [01/22/08 ] Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, the Department of the Interior and its Fish and Wildlife Service are getting ready to trample on your rights, drive up your cost of living, and regulate virtually every aspect of your life.

May you freeze in the dark: Season’s Greetings to a Romanian mining town from Ebenezer Soros and Friends [12/27/07 ] Tucked away in the mountains of western Romania, Rosia Montana has been a mining town for 2000 years. From Roman times, extracting gold and other metals from these rocks has been a dirty, dangerous business, and life there has never been easy. Safety, health and environmental considerations were rarely priorities, and decades of operations under Communist regimes left mountains of rubble that still leach toxic chemicals into streams.

Climate change rallies, realities and sacrifices: Confronting the true costs of climate change “prevention” [12/20/07 ] The mantra is repeated daily. There is consensus on climate change. Global warming is real. It will be a disaster. Humans are to blame. We have to do something – immediately.

However, the consensus of 100 scientists is undone by one fact, Albert Einstein noted. The United Nations and its Climate Cataclysm army of 15,000 in exotic Bali clearly understood that.

Sick and deadly disease control programs: Too many of them perpetuate disease and cost lives [11/08/07 ] If an accident kills wildlife or people, punishment is meted out and restitution made. A host of regulators, lawyers, judges, activists, journalists and politicians help bring the wrongdoers to justice.

Malaria atonement and forgiveness: Environmentalists and foundations that support them have much to atone for [09/28/07 ] During the Days of Repentance, Jews ponder their sins of the past year. Yom Kippur, is their final opportunity to make amends and alter the judgment that God will enter in his books, as the sun sets.

Global warming insanity?: When do symbolic gestures turn into “doing something” about climate change? [09/12/07 ] “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority,” Marcus Aurelius opined, “but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”

An even worse fate would be to end up in minority status and an asylum. Recent developments suggest that this might be the destiny of climate change alarmists.

Keeping Romania impoverished : Anti-mining campaigns will perpetuate unemployment and environmental degradation [08/31/07 ] For decades, Nazi and Communist regimes ruled Romania, kept her people impoverished and exploited her resources – tearing vast mineral wealth from her mountains, with little regard for worker safety, people’s health or the environment. When the Soviet Empire collapsed, Romania eagerly embraced a more hopeful future and embarked on a course to join the European Union.

The social responsibility of profits: Good companies earn money the old-fashioned way: working for it and serving the public [08/17/07 ] “The social responsibility of business,” Milton Friedman famously said, “is to increase its profits.”

Some extol this view. Others condemn it. More simply misunderstand Dr. Friedman’s 1970 aphorism or quote it out of context, often to serve anti-business ideologies or misguided legislative initiatives.

Do-nothing energy policies: We need sound energy policy, not price-gouging anti-energy proposals [08/03/07 ] “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, “it means just what I choose it to mean.”

That’s apparently the operative philosophy for many politicians these days. Legislators should be working to ensure that markets work properly, so that we have abundant, reliable, affordable energy – to meet the needs of a growing population and technologies that safeguard and improve our lives.

Bad information breeds harmful legislation: Ad campaign illustrates how corporate and environmental interests can harm consumers [06/20/07 ] As Congress continues to deliberate energy and global warming bills, President Bush’s new climate initiative has altered the debate, at least at the international level. Clearheaded analysis and accurate information is essential – or narrow political and economic interests could run roughshod over consumers.

The “coal is filthy” ad-scam: Gas company ad campaign could impact US energy policies and consumers [05/24/07 ] Even in this “era of corporate social responsibility,” brazen violations of honesty, transparency and accountability standards occur regularly. Exhibit 1: the recent “Coal is filthy” ad campaign.

Pro-malaria forces resurface at WHO: Proposals to ban life-saving chemicals would cost countless lives [05/16/07 ] The World Health Organization intends to phase out chemotherapy drugs, due to concerns about their health effects, WHO Public Health and Environment director Dr. Maria Neira announced recently. Those effects include anemia, diarrhea, reduced resistance to infection, potential birth defects and hair loss.

Forty years of perverse “social responsibility”: Environmentalist crusades against DDT and fossil fuels hurt people and planet [03/29/07 ] “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean,” said Humpty Dumpty – “neither more nor less.” Lewis Carroll’s “Looking Glass” logic too often seems to be a guiding principle for environmental and corporate social responsibility (CSR) activists.

Global warming ethics, pork and profits: Global warming alarmism generates political and financial incentives [02/09/07 ] The ink has barely dried on its new code of conduct, and already Congress is redefining ethics and pork to fit a global warming agenda. As Will Rogers observed, “with Congress, every time they make a joke, it’s a law. And every time they make a law, it’s a joke.”

An economic suicide pact for Europe and the US: Climate alarmism threatens intense pain, for no environmental gain [01/25/07 ] Europeans have worked themselves into such a lather over “climate chaos” that they’ve set themselves up for a head-on collision between eco-ideology and economic reality. With the new Democratic Congress poised to ram through heavy-handed climate legislation, the US may be heading down the same path.

Climate McCarthyism and Eco-Inquisitions: Censoring news and views to advance ideologies and legislation [12/13/06 ] Two centuries years ago, Voltaire proclaimed, “I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.” Today, our free speech traditions are under assault. Colleges prohibit “offensive” or “politically incorrect” speech. Radical Islamists threaten to kill scholars, artists and even popes who “disrespect” the Prophet. And when we desperately need unfettered scientific debate, intolerant eco-activists have ushered in an era of climate McCarthyism and eco-Inquisitions.

The real climate change catastrophe: Misguided energy policies are harming the world’s poor [11/02/06 ] Our planet is again warming slightly, and the weather keeps taking unexpected turns. Many scientists say this is hardly unprecedented, cause for alarm, or proof that humans are now the dominant factor in climate change. Others disagree strongly, and point to every snowstorm, hurricane, deluge or drought as proof that urgent action is needed to avoid imminent climate catastrophe.

Delaying technology can be deadly: Activist opposition to bio-pharmaceuticals perpetuates disease risks [10/27/06 ] In sub-Saharan Africa and poor areas of Asia and Latin America, diarrhea isn’t just a source of mild discomfort and juvenile bathroom humor. Because of unsanitary conditions, contaminated water and food infected by bacteria in feces used for fertilizer, people in those regions endure 4 billion episodes of severe diarrhea a year. Up to 2 million die annually.

British American Tobacco perpetuates disease in Africa: CORE official calls BAT actions hypocritical and inhuman. [09/27/06 ] NEW YORK – Just days after the World Health Organization announced new policies to control the spread of malaria, British American Tobacco (BAT) has emerged as the leader and financier of efforts to undermine those policies, the Congress of Racial Equality charged today.

British American Tobacco perpetuates disease in Africa: CORE official calls BAT actions hypocritical and inhuman. [09/27/06 ] NEW YORK – Just days after the World Health Organization announced new policies to control the spread of malaria, British American Tobacco (BAT) has emerged as the leader and financier of efforts to undermine those policies, the Congress of Racial Equality charged today.