Dennis Avery
Environmental activists claim that synthetic fertilizer from farms is threatening the marine life in the Gulf of Mexico by causing the rampant spread of a “dead zone” of low-oxygen water.
New research, however, shows that the Gulf of Mexico had the seasonal “dead zones” of low-oxygen water as early as 1817—long before farmers even settled [...]
Dennis Avery, et al.
These letters appeared in Science, Vol 307, Issue 5714, 1410-1411, March 2005
In his review of Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist’s View of Genetically Modified Foods by N. Fedoroff and N. M. Brown (“Changing genes to feed the world,” Books et al., 29 Oct. 2004, p. 815), D. Pimentel misrepresents the impacts [...]
Dennis Avery
The Environmental Protection Agency is launching a new assault on the aerial emissions of confinement hog and poultry farms. In a Kafka-like scenario, EPA’s enforcement staff brags that it has agreed not to charge the confinement hog and poultry farms with any past violations of the Clean Air Act—which the EPA has never monitored. [...]
Paul Driessen and Cyril Boynes, Jr.
What Thoughless Activists Want To Do With Biotechnology
Like Dr. Martin Luther King, Dr. Ruth Oniango has a dream. A member of Kenya’s parliament, she envisions a day when the people of her poor country “can feed themselves.”
Congress of Racial Equality national chairman Roy Innis shares that vision. But he also [...]
Dennis Avery
Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute says world famine is becoming more likely as global warming continues. Brown, winner of the MacArthur “genius award,” says hotter temperatures will fry the crops and evaporate the soil moisture needed to grow them.
Brown has an unblemished record on numerous famine predictions over the past 40 years: [...]
Dr. Thomas E. Elam [1]
If you ever doubted how important trade is just pause a minute, look around slowly wherever you are at this moment, and ask two simple questions:
How much of this stuff here did I make myself?
How much of this stuff here was made by somebody I personally know?
Without trade we would have [...]
Dennis Avery
This month, with Russia’s ratification, the Kyoto Global warming treaty is at long last going into effect. European nations are preparing to meet their greenhouse reduction targets under the treaty. Is it time for Americans to rethink the question of radically cutting our own CO2 emissions, to protect the global future?
TXU, a Texas-based energy [...]
Presentation in Winnipeg to the Canadain Association of Agri-Retailers
Dennis Avery
. . . farms obliterate empty places, ploughed fields vanquish forests, herds drive out wild beasts. . . and there are such great cities where formerly hardly a hut . . . everywhere there is a dwelling,
everywhere a multitude. . . . We are burdensome to [...]
Dennis Avery
Pulitzer-winning author Jared Diamond says Dutch society will succeed in the years ahead, but America may fail. Diamond sees America’s will to succeed being sapped by such eco-problems as overpopulation and pollution.
Diamond’s new book, “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed,” cites four societies that he says chose to fail: Easter Island in [...]
Dennis Avery
It’s almost eerie. Just before that earthquake-triggered tsunami hit the Indian Ocean in December, best-selling novelist Michael Crichton released his new docu-novel, “State of Fear.” In it, environmental activists try to ramp up public fears of global warming—by setting off an earthquake-triggered tsunami in the Pacific with a series of submarine bombs. They planned [...]
