Real Environmental Racism
7 March 2003 - 12:00pm
That the world's poor cause environmental destruction is a disturbing tenet propounded by many environmentalists.
"Coercive population control has long been an established and widely accepted precept of ideological environmentalism. But in a fascinating interview in New Scientist, Betsy Hartmann, director of the population and development program at Hampshire College, questions that ideology. 'Phrases like 'the population bomb' and 'the population explosion' breed racism,' Hartmann declares."
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Reason Online, March 5, 2003
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