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IPN Opinion article

October 21, 2002
The summary of presentations at a seminar for policy makers and media, on the occasion of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Eighth Conference of Parties in New Delhi from Oct 23 to 30, 2002

IPN Opinion article

October 11, 2002
A paper examining various aspects of climate change and the global warming debate, including analysis of the claims that these phenomena will exacerbate disease and extreme weather events.

IPN Opinion article

October 11, 2002
In Kenya, it is the poor who bear the brunt of elephant-related damage, while receiving few of the benefits of their conservation. Each year marauding elephants destroy crops and trample humans. Kenyans living near national parks face constant fear but have little control over management of their own natural resources. Some \"conservationists\" have gone so far as to describe the local people as a danger to wildlife. But the real danger to African wildlife stems from government intervention, not local people.

IPN Opinion article

October 6, 2002
The problem is that the core of the Climate Action Report was produced by the wrong administration. Chapter 6, the section on climate change effects on the U.S., is largely an outtake from the "U.S. National Assessment" (USNA) of global warming, a politically inspired document rushed to publication some 10 days before the 2000 presidential election.

IPN Opinion article

September 23, 2002
Has capitalism been responsible for the planet's destruction, or will the markets save the Earth? A Royal Institution panel concluded that while market failures may have caused planetary problems, businesses have the skills to steer environmental change - but only with a periodic nudge in the right direction.

IPN Opinion article

September 17, 2002
The United States of America and the European Union have transferred their battle on genetically modified foods to Africa. 12 million people in Lesotho, Swaziland, Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia are in urgent need for food. The case is very much similar to the story of John Harrison of United Kingdom who struggled in the Seventeenth Century for 40 years to prove that his mechanical clock was the answer to the longitude and accurate position location on earth and not stars as most people in the scientific establishment believed. The whole world presently takes little notice of the history of longitudes and wristwatches they wear. The genetically modified organisms [GMOs] despite rigorous scientific tests to ascertain whether they are harmful to human beings or not have been subjected to the same precautionary principle that saw John Harrison toil all his life.

IPN Opinion article

September 9, 2002
I spent two days at the WSSD and everywhere saw science cringing before superstition, reason retreating from irrationalism, and capitalism grovelling before fascism. Technologies which promise to eradicate poverty and improve the environment were timid and apologetic if they were present at all. The new apocalyptic religion of climate change was proclaimed everywhere and demanded blind, unquestioning acceptance. Africa itself was treated with condescending contempt by Europeans bringing windmills and other disastrously expensive and unsuitable technologies.

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Press release

September 5, 2002

IPN Opinion article

August 29, 2002
The business community and