Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts |  Critics of increased global trade point to the ways in which developed nations have benefited more than developing nations, and argue that global trade is rigged to further enrich wealthy countries and further impoverish poor ones. environmentalists point out that shipping Chilean grapes to London entails a huge cost in
Container ship, Halifax, Canada, 2001. carbon dioxide that globalization's proponents ignore. Human rights activists worry that the jobs being created in developing nations are jobs for children in sweatshops. | | Plenty of staunch environmentalists argue that the energy required to recycle bottles and newspapers negates the Crushed plastic bottles awaiting recycling. and we can use nontoxic detergents. Washing clothes is still a water-intensive process, but it's getting better. The drying part, however, is much more problematic. After the refrigerator, the dryer sucks more energy from our homes than any other appliance.
Dryer technology has improved so little in the past few years that Energy Star doesn't even offer a label to distinguish the bad from the better. | | Many researchers and environmentalists believe that the solution lies in removing fish farms from areas bordering wild waters. Although Dr. Schreibman's tanks are still largely experimental, his work shows that sustainable aquaculture is possible—even in a Brooklyn basement. | | Researched and produced since the 1980s, it has faced serious stumbling blocks: it is more expensive than the petrochemical plastics it replaces, and some environmentalists have been reluctant to promote it because the corn used as feedstock is not limited to organically grown, non-genetically-modified plants. Restricting the type of corn used would raise the plastic's price even further. The benefits of its biodegradability have been limited by the lack of municipal composting programs in the United States. | | Some environmentalists would have us believe that every logging job is as bad as a clear-cut—that parkland is the only good use of a forest. That view ignores the emergence of sustainable forestry, a full-fledged industry that aims to reap a steady harvest from the forest for generations to come, while maintaining the integrity of ecosystems and social fabrics.
When we practice sustainable forestry, we care for the forest as a whole system, made up of creatures from soil fungi to spotted owls, from lizards to loggers. |
James Howard Kunstler
See book keywords and concepts |  Proposals were made by environmentalists in the late twentieth century to programmatically return broad expanses of the Great Plains to their natural condition, short grass prairie, complete with roaming buffalo and antelope playing. The creation of this "buffalo common" may not now require any conscious effort or program. It will probably happen naturally as industrial farming ceases and more people leave. With automobile use on the wane, the region will become less accessible. Its extremely monotonous landscape and horrible weather will not lure many visitors. |
Carlo Petrini
See book keywords and concepts |  At the same time, environmentalists must understand that gastronomy is the art of producing food in harmony with the surrounding environment and that organic monocultures, for example, are not sustainable: even if you do not use chemical products, you can destroy the environment by eliminating biodiversity (such as woodland, other plants) in favor of a single variety that is produced in large quantities. The same happens if you introduce varieties that are foreign to the existing ecosystem; they may be organic, but they are alien to the environment and may cause serious damage to it. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  The Light Bearers - whether they be the cultural creatives, the wholis-tic camp initiates, the intuitives, those millions who have had the near death experience, the fire walkers, miracle makers, reborn Essenes, or spiritualized environmentalists - with Gabriel's redefining of spiritual frontiers, are spring boarded within a leap of faith, moving at lightning speed through the compost of a world redefined by famine, plagues, dishonesty, greed, war, terrorism, environmental toxemia, chemtrails, global warming, and mass insanity. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  As for environmentalists, the leaders (though not their followers) have a secret agenda that they rarely make public. They want to see a socialist world, one controlled by bureaucrats and politicians—their bureaucrats and politicians. Instead of a free market, a giant collec-tivist machine controlling all that we do would be forced on us.
I find it telling that the left in the West supported the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War as an example to follow. They extolled the virtues of the Soviet system in protecting the environment and preventing the rape of the world's resources. |
James Howard Kunstler
See book keywords and concepts | | Even many "environmentalists" and "greens" of our day seem to think that all we have to do is switch inputs. Instead of running all the air conditioners of Houston on oil- or gas-generated electricity, we'll use wind farms, or massive solar arrays; we'll have super-fuel-efficient cars and keep on commuting over the interstate highway system. It isn't going to happen. The wish to keep running the same giant systems at gigantic scale using renewables is the heart of our illusions about solar, wind, and water power. |
Jay Joseph
See book keywords and concepts |  Although it is true, as Gottesman pointed out, that zero percent identical twin concordance was a surprise to hereditarians and environmentalists alike, it turns out that Tienari's final results are not dramatically different from his 1963 "fluke" data. In his final publication, in 1975, Tienari reported pairwise identical twin concordance of only 15%: "The concordance rate for the MZ group is 3:20 (15 per cent) and that for the DZ group is 3:42 (7.5 per cent)."3
Readers of Schizophrenia Genesis, on the other hand, are provided with different results. |
Peter Pringle
See book keywords and concepts |  To boost yields of wheat and rice, Japanese farmers pioneered the industrial agriculture so reviled by environmentalists and ecologists today. They started using commercial fertilizer—mainly organic soybean cake—which suited their new varieties but required deep plowing. This meant new plow designs and the use of draft animals instead of human labor. It also meant new irrigation systems, because the fields had to be drained before they could be plowed. Japanese farmers also introduced double-cropping—planting two separate crops a year on the same field. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
See book keywords and concepts |  The message also accused Chapela of being "first and foremost an activist" and said his research was published in collusion with environmentalists. Chapela couldn't immediately respond, since his internet service shut off for three days, just at the time of the postings. Some suspect a well-timed hacker attack.
Smetacek followed the next day with another attack on Chapela's credibility. The wording on these messages was powerfully written and soon hundreds of other messages appeared, repeating or embellishing the accusations. |
Peter Pringle
See book keywords and concepts | | Green groups believed that the Royal Society had criticized Pusztai because it represented the British scientific establishment, which generally supported what they saw as biotechnology's vast promise. The environmentalists still noted that the society had not concluded that GM foods were safe. But scientists can't do that. "Although we have no evidence of harmful effects from genetic modification, this of course does not mean that harmful effects can be categorically ruled out," concluded the Royal Society. The absence of evidence is not evidence either of the risk or the safety of a new food. |
Marion Nestle
See book keywords and concepts |  The idea of widespread resistance to Roundup is not improbable, and it alarms the industry as well as environmentalists.37
The most highly critical statements about the use, toxicity, and persistence in soil of Roundup can be traced to an exhaustive scientific review published in 1995. The review identifies toxic effects from the chemical itself as well as from ingredients used in its formulation. |
Brian O'Leary
See book keywords and concepts |  Along with the environmentalists, these are the kinds of people who coalesced for the WTO demonstrations in Seattle. Such coalitions, in addition to other new thinkers, will form the nucleus of a robust global green democracy which would oversee the conversion to an ecolonomic and just future.
American Politics and the Green Party
During the 2000 U.S. | | I'm sure some environmentalists will take issue with my attempts to bridge the gap between sustainability and greater truth. Yet my discussion is well-grounded in collective human experience and scientific study. These paradigm-breaking topics have been omitted in the debate by the same dynamics as the quest for clean energy.
In Chapter 5, I discuss one recent example of this bridge between sustainability and greater truth: the evidence for extraterrestrial life and the UFO phenomenon. This search has only recently gained new credibility under what is called the Disclosure Project, led by Dr. | | I don't mean to imply that only we Americans are culpable and that the Brits are exemplary environmentalists eager to get into clean and renewable energy. In one report, "While most members of the European Union generate 10 per cent of their energy needs from renewable sources, on average, England totals less than three per cent." 17 For example, while Germany plans to have 100,000 solar-powered buildings by 2010, the United Kingdom plans to build only 100. Most of England's renewable energy comes from hydroelectric dams which often destroy the landscape and wildlife. |
Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen
See book keywords and concepts |  Farmers, leftists, anarchists, nationalists, environmentalists, consumer advocates, educators, health officials, labor unions, and defenders of animal rights have found common ground in a campaign against the perceived Americanization of the world. Fast food has become a target because it is so ubiquitous and because it threatens a fundamental aspect of national identity: how, where, and what people choose to eat."37
The Unique International Opportunity
History provides foreign nations with an opportunity no longer available to the United States. |
Marion Nestle
See book keywords and concepts | | Many such problems can be unintended consequences of large-scale plantings of transgenic crops, and they greatly trouble environmentalists. As I will soon explain, effects on monarch butterflies are the most political of such consequences, but let's look first at the environmental benefits claimed for transgenic crops.
Environmental Benefits
As evidence for the benefits produced by genetically engineered crops, the industry notes how quickly growers have adopted them. In theory, the crops should help growers. |
Peter Pringle
See book keywords and concepts | | Scientists, doctors, environmentalists, ecologists, farmers, agronomists, sociologists, lawyers, economists, creationists, mystics, latter-day Pre-Raphaelites, and antiglobalists who wanted to bring a halt to this new technology took to the streets to stop agribusiness from tampering with their food.
But the antibiotech forces were not urging scientists and companies to tailor their genetic inventions in ways that could help the millions of hungry people in the world. There were no banners urging "Miracle Seeds for the Poor" or "Gene-Altered Cassava for Dry African Fields. |
Brian O'Leary
See book keywords and concepts | | As a result of this scientific whitewash, for all practical purposes, cold fusion lost all credibility with the media, politicians, mainstream scientists, environmentalists and most of the public.
But throughout all the turmoil, other things were beginning to happen. Several positive observations of the Fleischmann-Pons Effect were coming from places as disparate as the Stanford Research Institute, the Los Alamos and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, the University of Illinois, Texas A&M University, the U.S. | | Unfortunately, even the environmentalists haven't yet given new energy alternatives a fair look.
The Cold Fusion Revolution
The unfolding cold fusion saga has provided us with an illustrious thirteen year history that would make the suppression of Tesla seem like a school exercise. The censorship of cold fusion reveals a resistance so strong that Sir Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001, calls it "one of the greatest scandals in the history of science. | | Where are the environmentalists?
During 1975 I was an energy advisor and speechwriter for the late Morris Udall, who was a presidential candidate and chairman of the U.S. House Interior Committee's Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment. At that time there was a perception that we had an energy crisis. The OPEC oil cartel raised their prices, gasoline shortages caused long lines at the petrol pump, and people wanted answers. This was when I received a firsthand education on the energy-environment crisis. |
Peter Pringle
See book keywords and concepts | | Few could unravel the conflicting evidence, as biotech companies desperately tried to sell their new products and ideological environmentalists worked with equal determination to stop them. On top of it all, religious and ethical groups warned of the dangers of competing with God in the garden.
Environmental groups warn that there are no quick fixes for food shortages in the developing world from this new technology and that indeed, biotech farming could make matters worse if used inappropriately. | | Elsewhere the new seeds were greeted with far more skepticism and even barred in some countries after environmentalists raised one alarm after the other. By 1998, the early success of the new technology had begun to turn sour.
The new crops, environmental groups insisted, were indeed different. They were "Frankenfoods" that could cause allergies in humans and mutations in pests. They could produce agricultural monstrosities, such as invasive "superweeds." They could change the ecology of the planet in unpredictable and irreversible ways. They could destroy biodiversity. | | If the biotech industry had been reluctant to discuss gene flow before the Quist and Chapela affair, the subject was now a matter of open and international debate. environmentalists argued that sooner rather than later, the world's crop landraces were all at risk of being contaminated by transgenes unless the centers of diversity of the major crops were turned into special reserves—national agricultural parks, quarantined from transgenic plants. The probiotech lobby countered that such gene flow was both inevitable and probably even beneficial. |
Doris J. Rapp, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  For example, despite objections from environmentalists, the EPA approved the use of the chemical bromoxynil to be sprayed on genetically engineered bromoxynil-tolerant cotton. This chemical failed to meet the safety standards of the Food Quality Protection Act and is known to cause cancer and birth defects in laboratory mammals. In addition, it is toxic to fish and plants. This alone should have meant no approval." We must ask, why was it approved? An unexpected splatter effect of the above decision became evident by mid-2001. | | Porter's Washington Toxics Coalition Interview in Santa Barbara to environmentalists, 1992, U. of Wisconsin Foundation, 1848 University Av., Madison, WI 53706. 206.632.8661
7 Ross, Gerald, M.D., "President's message," Environmental Physician, Summer 1996: 30 (2). 7701 East Kellogg, Suite 625, Wichita, KS 67207. 316.684.5500.
8 Guillette, L. et al., "Developmental Abnormalities of the Gonad and Abnormal Sex Hormone Concentrations in Juvenile Alligators from Contaminated and Control Lakes in Florida," Environmental Health Perspectives, 1994: 102, 680-688. | | Santa Barbara, CA to group of environmentalists. wporter@mhub.zoology.wisc.edu or http://www.wisc.edu/ zoology/faculty/fac/Por/Por.html
7c Porter, W. P., et al., "Behavioral and Neurochemical Changes Associated with Chronic Exposure to Low-Level Concentrations of Pesticide Mixtures," Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, July 1990: 30 (3) 209-221.
7d Porter, W. P., et al. |
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