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Destroying biodiversity

The greatest threats to the world’s species are misguided
environmental and anti-technology policies.

July 13, 2010
by Paul Driessen

The Soviet Union’s demise helped usher in manmade catastrophic global
warming as the new “central organizing principle of civilization.” Now,
global warming is giving way to a growing recognition that: climate change
is primarily natural, cyclical and moderate; China, India and other
countries will not sacrifice CO2-generating economic growth to prevent
speculative climate crises; and carbon taxes strangle competitiveness,
destroy jobs and send families into fuel poverty.

Thus, while not
recanting predictions of disastrous climate change, environmental
activists and the United Nations are already launching a new campaign. The
real threat to the planet, they now assert, is the impact of modern energy
technologies and civilization on biodiversity.
The case for saving species, they insist, is even “more powerful” than the
need to address climate change.

They seek to preserve biodiversity
by controlling people’s energy use, economic activities and population –
through new regulations and taxes under the auspices of the United Nations
and global treaties. These efforts, they claim, will generate benefits
“worth $4-5 trillion per year” (based on questionable studies and computer
models that underscore the intrinsic value of species and
biodiversity).

To accept these claims, one would have to ignore the
sordid history of Climategate and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change – and believe a larger, more powerful United Nations will
somehow ensure honesty, transparency, accountability and actual
consequences for misfeasance, misrepresentation, intimidation, and adverse
impacts on people and economic growth. One would also have to ignore a
growing body of evidence that:

The greatest threats to
the world’s species are misguided environmental and anti-technology
policies.

Among the policies adversely impacting
biodiversity are these:

Intense opposition to coal, gas,
nuclear and hydroelectric plants for generating the electricity
that two billion people worldwide so desperately need. Not only does this
force people to rely on open fires for heating and cooking – perpetuating
poverty, lung disease and premature death – it also destroys mountain
gorilla and other wildlife habitats, as people cut trees for fires and
charcoal.

China and India are self-financing hundreds of power
projects in order to avoid conditions placed by wealthy countries on World
Bank and other international loans. But poor countries must still rely on
such loans – and thus must run gauntlets laid down by regulators and
environmental activists who oppose critically needed power plants and the
economic growth and middle class living standards the plants
generate.

Steadfast promotion of expensive, unreliable wind
and solar power. Wind turbines slice up birds and collapse bat
lungs. Turbines and solar arrays would have to cover millions of acres to
provide power for cities. They require ultra-long transmission lines and
backup gas generators, and consume millions of tons of concrete, steel,
copper, fiberglass, polymers and rare earth (lanthanide) minerals – all of
which have to extracted from the Earth and processed into finished
products, burning fossil fuels and generating mining wastes and air and
water pollution.

Con Ed had to generate some 13,500 megawatts to
meet New York City’s air conditioning and other electricity needs during
the recent July heat wave. The 600-turbine Roscoe wind farm blankets
100,000 Texas acres to generate 780 MW at full capacity. That means NYC
would need a wind farm 1.6 times the size of Connecticut (5 million acres
or 2 million hectares), if the turbines are running at an average 30% of
capacity.  But during the heat wave, there’s barely a
breeze.

Now multiply that habitat demand times the world’s biggest
cities, and calculate the biodiversity impact. No wonder the wind industry
wants exemptions from endangered species rules and environmental impact
studies that hyper-regulate fossil fuel and nuclear companies. No wonder
Senator Diane Feinstein has introduced legislation to prohibit solar
installations in the super-sunny Mojave Desert, where developers want to
install millions of acres of photovoltaic panels.

Equally
passionate advocacy for biofuels, especially ethanol. Every 7
billion gallons of corn-based ethanol requires crops grown on an area the
size of Indiana (23 million acres) – and Congress now wants the USA to
produce 20 billion gallons of EtOH annually by 2020. In addition to
expropriating vast crop land and wildlife habitat, ethanol production
requires billions of gallons of water, millions of tons of fertilizer and
insecticides, and enormous quantities of natural gas and diesel fuel to
power tractors, tanker trucks and conversion plants – to distill a fuel
that gets 20% fewer mpg than gasoline.

And yet, President Obama
told a Ghanaian audience in July 2009 that malnourished Africa should
forego even gas-fired electricity generators in favor of wind, solar and
biofuel power. The continent and its arid, nutrient-depleted soils already
cannot feed their populations adequately, and the President wants them to
divert cropland and wildlife habitats to biofuels.

Meanwhile,
environmental activists continue to oppose biotechnology, genetically
engineered crops and even hybrid seeds. These specialized crops survive
better during droughts, increase farm family incomes, improve nutrition,
and reduce the need for insecticides. They offer the best hope for growing
more biofuel crops on less acreage.

The New York Times
says we can ill afford “not to make the best use of genetic engineering.”
If we “allow propaganda to trump science, then the potential for global
agriculture to be productive, diverse and sustainable will go
unfulfilled.” The late Dr. Norman Borlaug warned that forcing the world to
rely on organic and traditional farming to feed even current populations
would require plowing under nearly every remaining acre of forest and
grassland habitat. That’s without factoring in biofuels.

And yet,
environmentalists and EU bureaucrats threaten African nations with
punitive boycotts if they plant biotech crops. Radical greens want Third
World farmers to rely on “traditional” seeds and agricultural methods, and
oppose the use of seeds that have been “touched by
corporations.”

Environmentalists also oppose timber cutting and
even tree thinning and mechanized fire suppression on vast acreage of US
national forests. Too often the result is fiery conflagrations that
incinerate trees, wildlife, soil and streams, causing extensive erosion
and long-term habitat loss.

Topping it off, the Environmental
Protection Agency’s recent endangerment decision, low-carbon fuel
standards, and power plant emission rules will force even greater
expansion of wind, solar and biofuel use, further impacting habitats and
biodiversity.

It is bad enough that “biodiversity stabilization” is
a reprise of past government-environmentalist eco-scares. Like its
predecessors, the new program offers horrifying predictions of a dying
planet – backed by little more than dubious theories, assumptions,
assertions and statistics, fed into fancy computer models that generate
ominous scenarios and graphics. It also proposes the same tired
“solutions” – more taxes, regulations, and government control over lives,
energy development and economic growth.

The far greater problem is
that the UN, EPA, “mainstream media” and political establishment are
ignoring the real threats to habitats, species and biodiversity: the
anti-energy, anti-technology, anti-people agenda of radical green
ideology.

We now have an opportunity to make Earth a better place
for people and the natural world. We need to reject this agenda, demand
sound science and solid evidence that a threat exists, and recognize that
modern technology actually offers the best hope for protecting the
diversity of species.

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Paul Driessen
Paul
Driessen is senior policy adviser for the Committee For A Constructive
Tomorrow (CFACT), which is sponsoring the All Pain No Gain petition
against global-warming hype. He also is a senior policy adviser to the
Congress of Racial Equality and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power -
Black Death.

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{ from CFACT's
Morano debates UN climate treaty on Britain's Sky News }

CFACT releases short new video challenging scientific "consensus" on
climate change...

{ from All
Pain No Gain Video: Inconvenient Science }

Craig Rucker's "Copenhagen Insider" blog from National Journal...

{ from A
different kind of red and green this Yuletide }

Prominent group of climate protesters shows some interesting colors at
Copenhagen rally...

{ from Socialists
and Communists march to support global warming agenda }

Craig Rucker's "Copenhagen Insider" blog from National Journal...

{ from A
different kind of red and green this Yuletide }

The UN is running a bland, mediocre trade-show...

{ from Knute suit }

CFACT releases short new video challenging scientific "consensus" on
climate change...

{ from All
Pain No Gain Video: Inconvenient Science }

Craig Rucker's "Copenhagen Insider" blog from National Journal...

{ from A
different kind of red and green this Yuletide }

The reality behind the mythology of Cap and Trade...

{ from All pain, no gain
}

The proponents of global warming talk emotion and anecodote, while the
realists talk facts, figures, measurements, history and scientific
analysis...

{ from National
Journal: Clash between the Guardian and science }

Leading newspaper features story on CFACT scientific conference at U.N.
meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark...

{ from New
York Times carries CFACT's 'Climate Sense' Conference }

CFACT's delegation arived in Copenhagen, Denmark to educate delegates
and media from around the world that the climate change treaty is All Pain
No Gain....

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arrives in Copenhagen }

Al Gore's claim to have a scientific consensus in support of global
warming is confronted by protesters from CFACT's own Collegians for a
Constructive Tomorrow....

{ from CFACT
Collegians organize protest against appearance by Al Gore }

Lord Christopher Monckton debunks climate fears in Copenhagen...

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names names on Climategate }

Dr. Singer says global warming made up by man, not man-made...

{ from Is global
warming from man? }

Prominent group of climate protesters shows some interesting colors at
Copenhagen rally...

{ from Socialists
and Communists march to support global warming agenda }

Are we really losing one football field every minute?...

{ from The
clear-cutting facts about the rainforest }

The developing world is told to make sacrifices to save the
planet...

{ from CFACT's
Morano debates UN climate treaty on Britain's Sky News }

CFACT's delegation arived in Copenhagen, Denmark to educate delegates
and media from around the world that the climate change treaty is All Pain
No Gain....

{ from CFACT
arrives in Copenhagen }

Singer, Morner, Plimer headline all-star science cast...

{ from CFACT
sponsors climate science conference: The debate is not over
}

Facts challenge organic's benefits over modern agriculture...

{ from Are
organic foods really better? }

The proponents of global warming talk emotion and anecodote, while the
realists talk facts, figures, measurements, history and scientific
analysis...

{ from National
Journal: Clash between the Guardian and science }

CFACT's delegation arived in Copenhagen, Denmark to educate delegates
and media from around the world that the climate change treaty is All Pain
No Gain....

{ from CFACT
arrives in Copenhagen }

Dr. Singer says global warming made up by man, not man-made...

{ from Is global
warming from man? }

If an herbicide, that can drastically improve farming, has proven to be
safe for not only the animals in the environment, but also humans, it
should be used, right? Not according to the EPA....

{ from Is
government standing in the way of lower food costs? }

The future of the bay looks bright: stewardship at its best....

{ from Science
to save the Chesapeake Bay }

International efforts to ban chicken coops harms birds, farmers...

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praise of cages for egg laying hens }

How do you turn something as plentiful as grass into food? Feed it to
cows and have a B.B.Q.! U.S. meat production per acre has doubled since
1970, largely due to pesticides, veterinary chemistry, and better plant
breeding...

{ from Giving
up meat to Save the Planet? }

How do you turn something as plentiful as grass into food? Feed it to
cows and have a B.B.Q.! U.S. meat production per acre has doubled since
1970, largely due to pesticides, veterinary chemistry, and better plant
breeding...

{ from Giving
up meat to Save the Planet? }

The future of the bay looks bright: stewardship at its best....

{ from Science
to save the Chesapeake Bay }

How do you turn something as plentiful as grass into food? Feed it to
cows and have a B.B.Q.! U.S. meat production per acre has doubled since
1970, largely due to pesticides, veterinary chemistry, and better plant
breeding...

{ from Giving
up meat to Save the Planet? }

How do you turn something as plentiful as grass into food? Feed it to
cows and have a B.B.Q.! U.S. meat production per acre has doubled since
1970, largely due to pesticides, veterinary chemistry, and better plant
breeding...

{ from Giving
up meat to Save the Planet? }

International efforts to ban chicken coops harms birds, farmers...

{ from In
praise of cages for egg laying hens }

Scientific "consensus" and other shady sales tactics promote alarmist
theories...

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warming bait-and-switch }

Scientific "consensus" and other shady sales tactics promote alarmist
theories...

{ from Global
warming bait-and-switch }

Three California counties reject measures to ban the use of GM
crops...

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voice support for biotech farming }

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Gulf
disaster turns national catastrophe

BP and the Obama administration couldn’t have made a bigger mess of the
Gulf, whether the latest cap holds or not. For 50 days, the administration
left clean-up to the London-based company, while a U.S. president remained
detached.

Environmental
scientist bails out of global warming movement

Dr. Rancourt declares the global warming movement to be a 'corrupt social
phenomenon…strictly an imaginary problem of the first world middle
class'

Mrs.
Madoff exonerates Michael Mann

Justice
through affordable energy for Wisconsin

Alleged threats of global warming disaster must not hobble justice and
civil rights. Endangerment rules and cap-and-trade laws threaten jobs,
opportunity and justice.

Shrimp
farming has grown up

To the dismay of environmentalists, in the 1980s poor rice farmers in Asia
and Latin America began cutting down mangrove trees to make room for
profitable shrimp ponds. Now, shrimp farming has become more efficient, taking
far less land per pound of food, and the wastes have been disarmed.

It's
really about controlling our lives

'Low carbon fuel standards' mean higher costs, few environmental benefits
and less liberty

Rural
Georgia blacks demand feds return expropriated land

Descendants of black property owners in Georgia whose land was seized by
the federal government at the beginning of WWII are locking horns with the US
Fish & Wildlife Service. The black landowners want the government to give
back what it took, and the bureaucrats want to hold on to what they
have.

Bad
science makes bad laws

The plastics additive bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical used to harden plastic
has been in wide use for more than half a century. A purely political campaign
based on bad science is now being waged against it.

Crusading
for poverty, disease, and death

In this video, Paul Driessen exposes how Western policies of
eco-imperialism are leading a crusade against the poor of the world.

Destroying
biodiversity

The greatest threats to the world’s species are misguided environmental and
anti-technology policies.

Of
pelicans and people: CFACT staff visits affected region

The Louisiana brown pelican is perhaps the number one symbol of the damage
caused by BP oil spill. Running a close second are the people of Louisiana who
have already lost jobs both from the spilled oil and from the Obama
administration's decision to impose a 180-day moratorium on offshore
drilling.

Marc
Morano receives award

Award stirs up controversy as Morano is featured in hit article in U.K.
Guardian.

CFACT
team revisits Valle Verde, Mexico

A CFACT team returns this week to assess the progress of a village school
it equipped with laptops last year to train young children.

U.K.
cancels airport plans over global warming fears

Climate Depot's Morano on FNC's July 2, 2010 'Your World'

Obama’s
deliberate Katrina

Bungling the BP oil spill cleanup? Or never letting the crisis go to
waste?

CFACT
update from the Gulf coast

As we boarded the boat, our captain told us we would be traveling 50 miles.
Before we knew it, we arrived at Queen Bess Island, a habitat preserved just
for pelicans and other birds.

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