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environment but the majority of mostly wealthy, comfortable live according to their fears and
of people have also concerns Americans and Europeans on ideologies. They are masters
about putting food on the table mostly poor, desperate Africans, at using junk science, scare
and finding a job. Nearly Asians and Latin Americans. tactics, intimidation, and bogus
50% of adults in Limpopo are It violates these people’s most economic and health claims to
unemployed. The MMSEZ basic human rights, denying gain even greater power.”
planners are fully committed to them economic opportunities,
a clean industry: the chance for better lives, the POWER
right to rid their countries of
“The MMSEZ SOC is diseases that were vanquished Musina-Makhado was originally
committed to environmental and long ago in Europe and the planned to be 100% self-
biodiversity protection. We fully United States. powered. What made MMSEZ
appreciate and respect the Paris unique was the idea of using the
Agreement and our country’s Worst of all, in league with the abundant coal deposits in the
commitment to ecological European Union, United Nations locality to power the industrial
sustainable development and other bureaucracies, the park by a 4,600MW coal-fired
and are already taking all movement stifles vigorous, power station in Waterberg, the
reasonable measures to mitigate responsible debate over energy, coal rich region of the province.
environmental concerns such pesticides and biotechnology. Musina- Makhado has also been
as global warming, pollution, It prevents needy nations from referred to as the Power China
biodiversity loss, water scarcity using the very technologies that International Energy Project
and possible threats to food developed countries employed as China have supported the
security. Substantial research to become rich, comfortable proposed project and were to
is being conducted to mitigate and free of disease. And it sends be one of the biggest investors.
such risks which will include millions of infants, children, They pulled out of financing
the deployment of the best men and women to early graves the coal plant in 2021.
carbon capture and storage every year.
(CCS) technology to mitigate There has since been a move
the greenhouse gas emissions.” The ideological environmental by USAID to muscle in where
movement is a powerful $4 China pulled out. USAID
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung wants billion-a-year US industry, an want MMSEZ to operate from
to sell renewable energy $8 billion-a-year international renewable sources.
technology to South Africa. It is gorilla. Many of its members are
also part of the eco-imperialist, intensely eco-centric, and place Solar power although useful in
anti-industrial complex. The much higher value on wildlife certain applications can never
following is a quote from and ecological values than on generate enough power to
Paul Driessen`s book ` ECO- human progress or even human operate industrial production.
IMPERIALISM: Green Power life. They have a deep fear An exorbitantly costly lithium-
– Black Death`. and loathing of big business, vanadium battery storage
technology, chemicals, plastics, facility would need an area the
“The book reveals a dark fossil fuels and biotechnology – size of multiple football pitches
secret of the ideological and they insist that the rest of and has an extremely high
environmental movement. The world should acknowledge and explosive risk due to highly
movement imposes the views
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