OPINION/COMMENTARY

Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death

“Ideas and ideologies have consequences. Horrid ideas and ideologies have lethal consequences.” This is the central premise of Paul Driessen’s new book, Eco-Imperialism: Green Power · Black Death. The notion that environmental theories and values should take precedence over the value of human lives has had lethal consequences for millions of people in less developed countries – and the book documents these consequences in all their chilling detail. The methods of present day eco-imperialists consist of numerous fronts from which they press their case invisibly behind the scenes of public policy. Following several intertwined doctrines of social and environmental radicalism, they impose these doctrines as the standard to which all companies, governments and individuals are to expected to conform. These doctrines are not factual evaluations, but projections of desired outcomes based upon nebulous concepts, abstract responsibilities, faulty scientific criteria and fraudulent business models. What Paul Driessen documents in his book is that by fanatically seeking to impose their agenda upon the whole of society, especially in the developing world, eco-imperialists are directly responsible for advocating policies that literally result in the deaths of countless millions of poor and desperate people about the globe....

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