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Environmental injustice en EspaÃ±ol

By Rev. Sam RodriguezNineteen Latino activist groups recently asked Congress and President Obama to oppose any attempts to delay or scale back proposed Environmental Protection Agency air pollution and climate regulations.The groups’ letter cites EPA claims that “rising temperatures caused by human activities” would lead to higher levels of ground-level ozone, the main ingredient in smog. This they assert, again citing EPA claims, would lead to health problems in cities with large Hispanic populations, because low-income and minority communities are often less able to pay costs associated with heat-related health threats.Therefore, they argue, any legislation that affects the proposed Clean Air [...]

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|2010-10-13T06:22:34-04:00October 13th, 2010|Comments Off

Black Crosses and black deaths

By Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr. and Niger InnisAre these people crazy? Are they so disconnected from reality that they don’t understand how vital coal is to jobs, living standards, civil rights progress and life itself?How else can anyone react to a new environmentalist campaign to erect black crosses at coal mines and coal-fired power plants, to symbolize their opposition to this vital energy source? The Black Cross Alliance (BCA) is little more than another sordid campaign against affordable energy, especially hydrocarbons. Its policies are misguided at best, harmful and even lethal at worst.When we see the Black Crosses, we need to [...]

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|2010-10-05T11:07:03-04:00October 5th, 2010|Comments Off

3 billion and counting

"We will eradicate malaria by 2010," stricken families were promised a few years ago. Well, 2010 is nearly gone and, instead of eradication, we have more malaria than before … and a new target date: 2015. Unless malaria control policies change, that date too will come and go. Billions will still be at risk of getting malaria. Hundreds of millions will continue getting the disease. Millions will die or become permanently brain-damaged. And poverty and misery will continue ravaging Third World communities. For years, malaria strategies have been dominated by insecticide-treated bed nets, Artemisia-based drugs, improved diagnostics and hospitals, educational campaigns, [...]

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Paul Driessen

|2012-10-24T18:16:38-04:00September 13th, 2010|Comments Off

End environmental experiments on Africans!

By Fiona KobusingyeI wish I had a shilling for every time someone told me spraying homes with DDT to prevent malaria is like using Africans in evil experiments. I would be a rich woman.That claim is a blatant falsehood. Even worse, it hides the many ways poor Africans really are being used in environmental experiments that cause increased poverty, disease and death.If any people were ever used in DDT experiments, it was Americans and Europeans. During World War II, this insecticide and mosquito repellant was sprayed on tents and around camps to keep American and British soldiers from getting malaria. After [...]

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Christina Norman

|2012-09-16T22:32:44-04:00August 27th, 2010|Comments Off

New York’s bedbugs vs. Africa’s malaria crisis

“Don’t let the bedbugs bite” is no longer a fashionable good-night wish for Big Apple kids, even in the city’s high-rent districts and posh hotels. Growing infestations of the ravenous bloodsuckers have New Yorkers annoyed, anguished, angry about officialdom’s inadequate responses, and “itching” for answers.Instead, their Bedbug Advisory Board recommends a bedbug team and educational website. Residents, it advises, should monitor and report infestations. Use blow dryers to flush out (maybe 5% of) the bugs, then sweep them into a plastic bag and dispose properly. Throw away (thousands of dollars worth of) infested clothing, bedding, carpeting and furniture.Hire (expensive) professionals who [...]

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Paul Driessen

|2010-08-21T10:19:36-04:00August 21st, 2010|Comments Off

Target: Monckton

Have you noticed the kicking around that CFACT Advisor Lord Christopher Monckton's been getting lately? Add to the title “Viscount of Brenchley,” “whipping boy du jour.” Seldom a recent day goes by without some new name calling or conspiracy theory attacking Lord Monckton echoing through the left-wing blogosphere. Why is Chris Monckton the victim of a global warming attack campaign? Effectiveness.

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CFACT

|2012-10-30T12:29:45-04:00August 12th, 2010|Comments Off

Climate proposals threaten pursuit of happiness and justice

Environmental justice demands that the United States address global warming, the gravest threat facing minority Americans, insist the EPA, Congressional Black Caucus and White House. Are they serious?

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Paul Driessen

|2012-10-30T12:28:45-04:00August 2nd, 2010|Comments Off

Justice through affordable energy for Wisconsin

Paul Driessen recently released a report entitled Justice through Affordable Energy for Wisconsin. In this thoroughly researched report, Driessen analyzes why affordable energy is crucial to promoting justice and advancing civil rights. Driessen argues: "Energy is the Master Resource – the foundation for everything we eat, make, ship and do. With abundant, reliable, affordable energy, almost anything is possible, and we can improve, enrich and safeguard countless lives. Without it, jobs, living standards, basic rights and modern civilization are imperiled."

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Paul Driessen

|2012-10-30T12:34:16-04:00July 22nd, 2010|Comments Off

Crusading for poverty, disease, and death

In this presentation to Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, Paul Driessen discusses the ongoing tragedy in the developing world and how it is being perpetuated by the environmental policies of the developed world. Access to reliable electricity spurs economic activity and raises communities out of poverty. To deny developing countries this energy is a policy of eco-imperialism that results in millions of needless deaths.

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Paul Driessen

|2012-09-16T22:32:44-04:00July 15th, 2010|Comments Off

Promoting entrepreneurship and poverty alleviation in Uganda

The U.N. and other liberal planners promoting so-called “sustainable development” may still believe that global socialism, a greatly reduced world population, and maybe a few solar panels on huts are all that’s needed for an “Avatar-like” utopia on earth. But CFACT continues to challenge these notions directly where the rubber meets the road – in developing countries where many poor residents are simply trying to eke out an existence on a per capita income of less than $1 per day, and seek genuine prosperity and freedom. This February, CFACT returned to the sub-Saharan nation of Uganda, a lush tropical country Winston [...]

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Craig Rucker

|2021-06-28T11:32:52-04:00March 30th, 2010|Comments Off

The future of climate alarmism is bogus statistics

By Dr David Evans and Joanne Nova The temptation is all too strong. How many bureaucrats would work just as hard to show that their department was less important, less necessary, and less deserving of funding? It’s the fatal trap of bureaucratic management. The incentives are wrong. When governments are faced with poor reports, but they write their own report cards, they have many options to upgrade their “score”. It’s irrational to think that people might not take every opportunity they can to improve their mark. They are human. Saints are rare. An important method that governments have for dealing with problems [...]

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|2009-11-12T18:25:38-05:00November 12th, 2009|Comments Off

Government has the wrong incentives

By Dr David Evans and Joanne Nova The temptation is all too strong. How many bureaucrats would work just as hard to show that their department was less important, less necessary, and less deserving of funding? It’s the fatal trap of bureaucratic management. The incentives are wrong. When governments are faced with poor reports, but they write their own report cards, they have many options to upgrade their “score”. It’s irrational to think that people might not take every opportunity they can to improve their mark. They are human. Saints are rare. An important method that governments have for dealing with problems [...]

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|2009-11-12T18:19:08-05:00November 12th, 2009|Comments Off

Affordable Energy: the foundation of economic justice

We have come together today united by a common goal: preserving jobs, families and communities … seeking improved opportunities, living standards and quality of life … revitalizing blighted neighborhoods, like those along Route 64 and in North St. Louis … bringing health and prosperity to Earth’s most impoverished nations … and pursuing social, economic and environmental justice – for workers and poor families … of every creed and color … across this great land and in faraway nations. But what do we mean by “justice”? How do we define this important humanitarian concept? What do we include in this definition [...]

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Paul Driessen

|2009-11-12T11:26:56-05:00November 12th, 2009|Comments Off

Video: CFACT’s Adopt-A-Village Project

At CFACT, we're working in local villages in impoverished countries to promote entrepreneurship and technological advance enjoyed by affluent countries, and ultimately achieve environmental and economic prosperity worldwide. Why? We all know these are crucial times in the scientific community and for our world. With a growing world population and limited financial resources, we must ensure adequate supplies of food, energy, clean water, and essential human services without causing damage to our environment or public health. How we answer these challenges is of great importance not only to ourselves but to future generations as well. CFACT (Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow) [...]

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Christina Norman

|2021-06-28T11:28:38-04:00October 24th, 2007|Comments Off

More and better (without the) blues

In his 1990 film Mo' Better Blues, director Spike Lee dissects the life of fictional trumpeter Bleek Gilliam as he struggles to find, as described by reviewers Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, a proper balance between work and love. "Work," according to psychiatrist Jay Rohrlich (as cited in their review), "is oriented to the future, to goals; love demands the present." Bill McKibben, in his brand-new book, Deep Economy, hits on this same theme - that more (the result of work) and better (the result of love) may not always be congruent. The Vermont Sunday school teacher (and Middlebury scholar) spent [...]

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|2012-09-16T22:34:42-04:00May 20th, 2007|Comments Off