Pollution
Environment and health: keep it real
IPN Opinion article
Ministers gathering in Libreville for the first African ministerial meeting on environment and health should avoid getting distracted by ill-defined problems like "climate change" and focus on the real environmental killers: dirty water and fuel.
A Chemical Kyoto
IPN Opinion article
Does the Rotterdam Convention promote better chemicals management and environmental protection? This article argues that the Convention - a system of trade restrictions for chemicals - is justified with the ideology of 'chemophobia', and will undermine access to existing and new technologies.
Wealth means health -- progress, not regulation, improves lives
IPN Opinion article
Environment and health ministers from the WHO\'s European region will meet next week in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss 'the effects of a degraded environment on children's health.' This article highlights the role of technological progress in solving human health and environment problems, often overlooked by activists and international agencies.
Deadly Bans
IPN Opinion article
Neo-Malthusian environmentalists pushed for a ban on DDT despite the fact that science didn't support them and that the insecticide saved lives in disease control around the world. Now, the EPA is convinced that the Stockholm Convention will be good for the health of those living in developing countries.
