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September 8, 2008
Africans Pay the Price for Enviromoonbattery
Environmental lunacy has noticeably hampered our economy by driving up gas prices. But in Africa, the effects of pious political correctness have been even more pernicious.
Western do-gooders are impoverishing Africa by promoting traditional farming at the expense of modern scientific agriculture, according to Britain's former chief scientist.
Professor Sir David King laments:
I'm going to suggest, and I believe this very strongly, that a big part has been played in the impoverishment of that continent by the focus on nontechnological agricultural techniques, on techniques of farming that pertain to the history of that continent rather than techniques that pertain to modern technological capability. Why has that continent not joined Asia in the big green revolutions that have taken place over the past few decades? The suffering within that continent, I believe, is largely driven by attitudes developed in the West which are somewhat anti-science, anti-technology — attitudes that lead towards organic farming, for example, attitudes that lead against the use of genetic technology for crops that could deal with increased salinity in the water, that can deal with flooding for rice crops, that can deal with drought resistance.[…]
The problem is that the Western-world move toward organic farming — a lifestyle choice for a community with surplus food — and against agricultural technology in general and GM in particular, has been adopted across Africa, with the exception of South Africa, with devastating consequences.
Genetically modified crops could feed starving people, but are suppressed for flaky political reasons. Similarly, moonbat do-gooders have managed to suppress the use of DDT in Africa, saving many put-upon mosquitoes but condemning millions of children to death. At least they mean well, supposedly.
But liberals are perfectly willing to help Africans if it means confiscating your money and giving it to socialist dictators to blow on weapons and palaces.

On a tip from Oiao.
Posted by Van Helsing at September 8, 2008 6:23 PM
Comments
P & T did a good segment on this.
Posted by: Smoke TNT at September 8, 2008 6:52 PM
Today at lunch I was accosted by a gaggle of Algorian Obamatrons in matching blue Greenpeace T-shirts. They wanted me to sign a petition that I didn’t even want to hear about – what ever it was I know it had to be anti-human. It was probably something to do with not eating fish, not peeing on trees, and not using fuel. In short; human life is doomed unless we all die. As I ignored them and went on my way one of them screamed “That man hates the earth!”
No. I’m just pro-life.
I was proud that I was able to keep an even smile and not burden the little twerp with a huge dental bill and life with a crooked nose. I won. He and his cohorts are the ultimate losers. It’s so sad that THEY are the ones who are the killers while sincerely believing they are engaged in ‘justice’.
Posted by: Jimbo at September 8, 2008 8:15 PM
The DDT ban is basically these enviro-whackos giving Africa the finger. It was fine for us until all the malaria was gone, then there were bird's egg shells which were far more important than the lives of some ignorant African family. Don't wait for hard evidence to support any claims, look at these thin egg shells! Case closed!
Just think, we could also help them build a real infrastructure and school them in some high-tech agriculture. Maybe even help them improve their plights some. We should probably get some community organizers right on it.
Now if we could just get all these moonbats to tone down the cry of "AIDS pandemic" that was already supposed to be decimating African populations that are otherwise doubling consistently.
Posted by: cowlove at September 8, 2008 8:44 PM
This isn't off-topic. It is spot-on topic:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/013117.html
Posted by: Jimbo at September 8, 2008 9:17 PM
Well, to be fair Jimbo, hydrogen dioxide does sound pretty scary, and I think we're all-too-familiar with moonbats' typical knee-jerk reactions to the fear emotion.
Posted by: cowlove at September 8, 2008 9:34 PM
Maybe some of this will be off topic but just like in the past ignorant liberal policies are going to come back and burn the west. It's what caused the attacks of 9/11. Other countries feel they are under the servitude of the west because of liberal Hollywood influence, liberal views on "how to do things right" and the liberal spread of companies that exploit people aJust like in the past ignorant liberal policies are going to come back and burn the west. It's what caused the attacks of 9/11. Other countries feel they are under the servitude of the west because of liberal Hollywood influence, liberal views on "how to do things right" and the liberal spread of companies that exploit people and pay them in a socialist "everyone earns the same amount of money" method.
History shows that liberals never learn from their past mistakes and instead lead to the defeat their nations. And who is the biggest target for everyone's discourse in the West? This country...the USA.
Us in evil-red-state-Jesusland need to keep morally separating ourselves from these people.
We need to get verbal about it and visually separate ourselves from these people in the face of the world. We need to show these people being negatively affected by liberal policies that WE are not the same as these liberals. Because we too are being used and pushed around by them. No one has to compare the income and health of local economies in liberal vs. conservative areas. Conservative areas of this nation are taking a massive hit too. Liberal policies like NAFTA, CAFTA and the WTO started under Clinton are sucking small towns dry and destroying small and medium businesses in this country as they do in Central and South America. As i said, we need to distance ourselves in this country from left-wing ways.
Whether it is in Africa or on this side of the world the best way to control people for your "revolutions" are to drive them to poverty and take their ability to exist without the "state" away.nd pay them in a socialist "everyone earns the same amount of money" method.
History shows that liberals never learn from their past mistakes and instead lead to the defeat their nations. And who is the biggest target for everyone's discourse in the West? This country...the USA.
Us in evil-red-state-Jesusland need to keep morally separating ourselves from these people.
We need to get verbal about it and visually separate ourselves from these people in the face of the world. We need to show these people being negatively affected by liberal policies that WE are not the same as these liberals. Because we too are being used and pushed around by them. No one has to compare the income and health of local economies in liberal vs. conservative areas. Conservative areas of this nation are taking a massive hit too. Liberal policies like NAFTA, CAFTA and the WTO started under Clinton are sucking small towns dry and destroying small and medium businesses in this country as they do in Central and South America. As i said, we need to distance ourselves in this country from left-wing ways.
Whether it is in Africa or on this side of the world the best way to control people for your "revolutions" are to drive them to poverty and take their ability to exist without the "state" away.
Posted by: Zeph at September 8, 2008 11:11 PM
Its the commie way! Force people to work from sun up to sun down under the hot sun growing food. That way they become more sheep like and easy to control. Thats what they want the entire world to do - engage is subsistance farming. Kind of like Pol Pot's Cambodia.
Posted by: Anonymous at September 9, 2008 5:20 AM
Well- played, Jimbo! You kept your cool in a potentially tense situation.
Posted by: Adam at September 9, 2008 6:51 AM
I just figured it out. Starving Africans = Global Warming Propaganda. It's in their best interest for Africans to die.
Posted by: Smoke TNT at September 9, 2008 7:19 AM
AGW hysteria is simply the latest ploy by the same bunch of international communists that have been trying to undermine capitalism for 100+ years. They've chipped away a little here and there, but largely failed as they do with everything.
Can you imagine the disease and starvation that would ensue if we were to commit economic suicide as they want us to and could no longer afford the monetary, medical, and food aid? That would put to shame the worst projections of the warmers.
Posted by: Mr Evilwrench at September 9, 2008 8:12 AM
These eco-freaks are cuasing suffering and misery everywhere they go i mean BIRDS AND HUMANS HAVE DIED BECUASE RACHEAL CARSON LIED the ban on DDT was based totaly on junk science fruad lies and political radicalism and these greens even wated to run those tribes and people off their land so they could open it up for photo safaris and eco-tourism and now they want the people of ALASKA to suffer and use the listing of POLARBEARS as THREATENED to cut off drilling in the ANWR its time to STAMP OUT DEEP ECOLOGY, HANG CAPTIAN PLANET
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at September 9, 2008 8:13 AM
When my brother used to live in MOUNTIAN VIEW here in CALIFORNIA those GREENPEACE jerks were always going around bumming for money to hold one of their stupid protests I mean these greens are the biggist threats to life on earth around BIRDS WOULD BE ALIVE WE WOULD HAVE NO WEST NILE VIRUSE BUT THE FACT IS THAT SILENT SPRING WAS A COMPLETE FABRICATION
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at September 9, 2008 11:42 AM
The "thin egg shells" caused by DDT was a hoax.
Posted by: STeve at September 10, 2008 3:11 AM

