Driessen, a former environmentalist activist himself, reminds us that in the name of environmental safety a million Africans die ever year from malaria, a disease that could be all but eliminated by the use of DDT, which has been banned thanks to Al Gore’s pals in the environmental movement.
"It was Environmental Defense and the foundations that created it that launched this nasty campaign against DDT just as they're doing on global warming,” Driessen told NewsMax.com in an exclusive interview.
“They just vilified anyone who tried to stand up in defense of DDT - an inquisition threatening to burn them at the stake and they just beat them into silence.
“So that in the end you end up with the same situation you have now with global warming - incredibly nasty attacks on companies, on users of energy – a repeat of the same tactics, and they're gunning for the same power and control – it’s not just over a chemical or the chemical industry or one particular insecticide (as in the case of DDT) but what is over the foundation of civilized society - energy, abundant reliable and affordable energy, and you don't get there with wind power or solar power or any of these other clean, green, fanciful, imaginary energy technologies that they approve of.”
Gore tells us that we must change our way of life by cutting our use of energy. For many Africans, however, changing their way of life simply means dying.