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Visions of “Ecodemics”
In Six modern plagues, veterinarian and journalist Mark Jerome Walters, like many modern-day greens, deems humankind the source of many of the world’s problems. He…
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Sympathy for the Mosquito?
“Save Our Mosquitoes,” isn't a plea one expects to see these days with the mosquito-borne West Nile Virus killing hundreds and making thousands…
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Why the Sympathy for Mosquitoes? Pesticides Get an Undeserved Rap
”Save Our Mosquitoes” isn’t a plea one expects to see these days with the mosquito-borne West Nile virus killing hundreds and making thousands of people…
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This Should Go over Like a Lead Balloon
Brewing in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Washington D.C. is a new public health scare that may soon reach beyond the beltway…
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A Green Discourse: Blaming Civilized Society for Human Suffering.
Mark Jerome Walters's book Six Modern Plagues: and How We Are Causing Them is relatively new, but its ideas are far from original.
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Europe’s Dangerous Over-Precaution
European Union (EU) officials are deliberating on whether to apply the “precautionary principle” to nearly all chemicals in commerce within the EU—a move that could…