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UK: Eco-friendly? Get sterilized…
UK Daily Mail
Meet the women who won’t have babies – because they’re not eco friendly
By NATASHA COURTENAY-SMITH and MORAG TURNER
Last updated at 22:05pm on 21st November 2007
Had Toni Vernelli gone ahead with her pregnancy ten years ago, she would know at first hand what it is like to cradle her own baby, to have a pair of innocent eyes gazing up at her with unconditional love, to feel a little hand slipping into hers – and a voice calling her Mummy.
But the very thought makes her shudder with horror.
Because when Toni terminated her pregnancy, she did so in the firm belief she was helping to save the planet.
Nov 27, 2007
Topic: Life, Abortion, Birth Control, Science, Environment,
Fateful Voice of a Generation Still Drowns Out Real Science
New York Times
Fateful Voice of a Generation Still Drowns Out Real Science
By JOHN TIERNEY
Published: June 5, 2007
For Rachel Carson admirers, it has not been a silent spring. They’ve been celebrating the centennial of her birthday with paeans to her saintliness. A new generation is reading her book in school — and mostly learning the wrong lesson from it.
Jul 7, 2007
Topic: Science, Environment,
Freedom, not climate, is at risk
Financial Times
Freedom, not climate, is at risk
By Vaclav Klaus
Published: June 13 2007 17:44 | Last updated: June 13 2007 17:44
We are living in strange times. One exceptionally warm winter is enough – irrespective of the fact that in the course of the 20th century the global temperature increased only by 0.6 per cent – for the environmentalists and their followers to suggest radical measures to do something about the weather, and to do it right now.
Jul 7, 2007
Topic: Citizenship, Human Rights, Science, Environment,
WSJ - Environmentalist Perpetuates Malaria
Suffering in Silence
Rachel Carson’s ideas are still popular, with deadly effect.
BY KATHERINE MANGU-WARD
Friday, April 20, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT
When the Christian Science Monitor recently declared Al Gore “the Rachel Carson of global warming,” the former vice president must have bubbled over with pride. There is, it seems, no higher compliment one can bestow on an environmentalist.
Next month marks what would have been Carson’s 100th birthday, and festivities abound. The author of “Silent Spring”—the 1962 book that birthed modern environmentalism and made “DDT” a dirty word—Carson is the subject of an exhibit at the National Archives and the star of its Environmental Film Festival this year.
Apr 25, 2007
Topic: Citizenship, National, Science, Environment,
RADIO - Global Warming
Dr. Barrett Duke Guests hosts Richard Land Live! on Saturday January 6, 2007
Updated Jan 24, 2007 to point to the FFF version of the broadcast.
Jan 6, 2007
Topic: Family, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Life, Cloning, Stem-Cell Research, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, Human Rights, Legislation, War, Science, Bioethics, Environment,
Gore Calls for Immediate Freeze on Heat-Trapping Gas Emissions
Former Vice President Al Gore called yesterday for a popular movement in the United States to seek an “immediate freeze” in heat-trapping smokestack and tailpipe gases linked by most scientists to global warming.
Sep 19, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, National, Science, Environment,
In Gamble, Calif. Tries to Curb Greenhouse Gases
In the Rocky Mountain States and the fast-growing desert Southwest, more than 20 power plants, designed to burn coal that is plentiful and cheap, are on the drawing boards. Much of the power, their owners expected, would be destined for the people of California.But such plants would also be among the country’s most potent producers of carbon dioxide, the king of gases linked to global warming. So California has just delivered a new message to these energy suppliers: If you cannot produce power with the lowest possible emissions of these greenhouse gases, we are not interested.
Sep 15, 2006
Topic: Science, Environment,
Gore isn’t quite as green as he’s led the world to believe
Al Gore has spoken: The world must embrace a “carbon-neutral lifestyle.” To do otherwise, he says, will result in a cataclysmic catastrophe. “Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb,” warns the website for his film, An Inconvenient Truth. “We have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tailspin.” But if Al Gore is the world’s role model for ecology, the planet is doomed.
Aug 10, 2006
Topic: Citizenship, National, Social Issues, Science, Environment,