Recent News and Opinion on Eco-Imperialism   Still feeding the world During the “Eat This” segment of their docu-comedy series BS, Penn Jillette beat Teller in a round of their “Greatest Person in History” card game. Penn needed just one card: Norman Borlaug. This Iowa farm boy and University of Minnesota agriculture graduate lived Thomas Edison’s maxim to the fullest. “Invention,” Edison once remarked, “is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” Dr. Borlaug did most of his 99% in the sweltering fields of Africa, India, Mexico and Pakistan. Full Story >>>   Global warming tax hikes heading your way America is in the throes of a major housing and financial downturn, soaring food and energy costs, rising unemployment and near recession. But legislators, bureaucrats and presidential candidates are falling all over themselves to restrict fossil fuel use, advance climate change legislation – and thereby increase energy prices, oil imports, and costs for families and businesses. Full Story >>>   Beyond Food and Fuel: The Role of 21st Century Agriculture Keynote Address by Hugh Grant, Monsanto Company at the Opening Session of The World Food Prize Norman E. Borlaug International Symposium Des Moines, Iowa, October 18, 2007 Over the next two days this august group – the World Food Prize group – will have a rare opportunity to look at the challenges of meeting the ever-growing demands of food and fuel. Full Story >>>   Green Power - Black Death European consumers are shunning food imported from Africa , and supermarkets are labeling African products with stickers marked "air-freighted," to reflect assertions that they are contributing to global warming. As more Africans are impoverished, because they can no longer sell their products, Europeans are eating produce grown in hot houses, thanks to fossil fuels, and going about their business and on vacations in cars, buses and airplanes. The hypocrisy is callous and unforgivable. Full Story >>>   Poisoning the Economy Schizophrenic legislators are enacting “stimulus” bills, at the same time that they are doing everything possible to DE-stimulate the economy … with counter-productive energy, land use, climate change and environmental policies. America needs to foster sensible energy development, and prevent passage of more bills that would cost jobs, reduce economic opportunities and roll back civil rights progress. Full Story >>>

Upcoming Events >>> 05/10/2006 Eco-Imperialism: Green power ∙ Black death is now in its second US printing. It has also been published in Argentina (Spanish), Germany (German) and Italy (Italian). The Indian edition (in English) includes an lengthy new introductory chapter by UCLA economics professor Deepak Lal, a native of India. 05/10/2006 Radio, college and other appearances – Driessen and his colleagues have spoken about eco-imperialism, malaria prevention, corporate social responsibility, global warming, biotechnology and other issues at Yale University, the University of Wisconsin, Duke University’s business school and other colleges ... before student, business and professional groups in the United States, Canada and Europe ...  before the United States Congress … and on the "CORE Radio Hour" and many other talk-radio programs. 05/10/2006 See a partial chronological summary of Driessen s lecture, radio and television appearances -- and contact him for your next event. See the EI links page and articles by other authors to learn about additional speakers and commentators.