01-16-2009, 05:26 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The New Cultural Imperialism
The Greens and Economic Development
Deepak Lal
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Yet as the inventor of âgolden riceâ Professor Ingo Portykus has noted, though it satisfies all the demands of the Greens they still oppose it. As he notes, the new rice has not been developed by or for industry; benefits the poor and disadvantaged; provides a sustainable, cost free solution, not requiring other resources; is given free of charge and restrictions to subsistence farmers; can be resown each year from the saved harvest; does not reduce agricultural biodiversity; does not affect natural biodiversity; has no negative effect on the environment; has no conceivable risk to consumer health and could not have been developed with traditional methods.
But, notes Prof. Potrykus: âThe GMO opposition is doing everything to prevent âgolden riceâ reaching the subsistence farmer. We have learned that the GMO opposition has a hidden, political agenda. It is not so much the concern about the environ-ment, or the health of the consumer, or the help for the dis-advantaged. It is a radical fight against technology and for political successâ (Potrykus, 2000).
CONCLUSIONS
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There we have it. The Green movement is a modern secular religious movement engaged in a worldwide crusade to impose its âhabits of the heartâ on the world. Its primary target is to prevent the economic development which alone offers the worldâs poor any chance of escaping their age old poverty. This modern-day secular Christian crusade has exchanged the saving of souls for saving Spaceship Earth. It needs to be fiercely resisted.
First, by standing up to the local converts â the modern day descendants of what the Chinese called ârice Christiansâ and âsecondary barbariansâ â the Arundhati Roys, Vandana Shivas and Medha Patkars of this world. Their argument that their views are in consonance with Hindu cosmology are reminiscent of those used by the proselytising Christians promoting a syncretised Christianity in the nineteenth century, and are equally derisory.
Second, by refusing to accept the transnational treaties and conventions which the Greens are promoting to legislate their ends. As many of the environmental ministries have become outposts of their local converts, the economic ministries must play a central role in resisting this Green imperialism, by insisting on having the last say on any transnational treaty India signs. As China has shown, through its continuing production and use of DDT and continuing development of GM technology, there is no need to give into this latest manifestation of western cultural imperialism, and in this fight, as the shining example of Julian Simon shows, there are still many in the West itself, who have not been infected with this secular Christian religion, and will join in showing up the Greens and their agenda as paper tigers, much as the Christian missionaries found in the last phase of western imperialism.
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Note that Vandana Shiva who is a well known eco priestess and eco feminist was also very heavily involved in opposing the Narmada dam, and repeated total lies about the Gujarat riots demonising Hindus in her books, people like these are well funded from abroad to sabotage the growth of Indian economy, especially the agricultural sector.
The Greens and Economic Development
Deepak Lal
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/libertyinsti...ltext.html<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Yet as the inventor of âgolden riceâ Professor Ingo Portykus has noted, though it satisfies all the demands of the Greens they still oppose it. As he notes, the new rice has not been developed by or for industry; benefits the poor and disadvantaged; provides a sustainable, cost free solution, not requiring other resources; is given free of charge and restrictions to subsistence farmers; can be resown each year from the saved harvest; does not reduce agricultural biodiversity; does not affect natural biodiversity; has no negative effect on the environment; has no conceivable risk to consumer health and could not have been developed with traditional methods.
But, notes Prof. Potrykus: âThe GMO opposition is doing everything to prevent âgolden riceâ reaching the subsistence farmer. We have learned that the GMO opposition has a hidden, political agenda. It is not so much the concern about the environ-ment, or the health of the consumer, or the help for the dis-advantaged. It is a radical fight against technology and for political successâ (Potrykus, 2000).
CONCLUSIONS
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There we have it. The Green movement is a modern secular religious movement engaged in a worldwide crusade to impose its âhabits of the heartâ on the world. Its primary target is to prevent the economic development which alone offers the worldâs poor any chance of escaping their age old poverty. This modern-day secular Christian crusade has exchanged the saving of souls for saving Spaceship Earth. It needs to be fiercely resisted.
First, by standing up to the local converts â the modern day descendants of what the Chinese called ârice Christiansâ and âsecondary barbariansâ â the Arundhati Roys, Vandana Shivas and Medha Patkars of this world. Their argument that their views are in consonance with Hindu cosmology are reminiscent of those used by the proselytising Christians promoting a syncretised Christianity in the nineteenth century, and are equally derisory.
Second, by refusing to accept the transnational treaties and conventions which the Greens are promoting to legislate their ends. As many of the environmental ministries have become outposts of their local converts, the economic ministries must play a central role in resisting this Green imperialism, by insisting on having the last say on any transnational treaty India signs. As China has shown, through its continuing production and use of DDT and continuing development of GM technology, there is no need to give into this latest manifestation of western cultural imperialism, and in this fight, as the shining example of Julian Simon shows, there are still many in the West itself, who have not been infected with this secular Christian religion, and will join in showing up the Greens and their agenda as paper tigers, much as the Christian missionaries found in the last phase of western imperialism.
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/libertyinsti...ltext.html<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Note that Vandana Shiva who is a well known eco priestess and eco feminist was also very heavily involved in opposing the Narmada dam, and repeated total lies about the Gujarat riots demonising Hindus in her books, people like these are well funded from abroad to sabotage the growth of Indian economy, especially the agricultural sector.