[prion]

Brent Blackwelder, president of Friends of the Earth, transforms this prejudice into policy. "It's just not possible for people to have the material lifestyle of the average American..."

Ummmm...why not? Is he volunteering to share the material lifestyle of the average African to help redress the injustice?

[JimSEA]

"It's just not possible for people to have the material lifestyle of the average American.

I would invite Mr. Blackwalter to come with me to Ban Rong Kart in Southeast Asia next month to explain his reasoning. Now I have seen Christian missionaries there dealing with health issues and I have seen Americans and Europeans helping with the irrigation system and to make the water supply healthy (using clorine of all things), but I have never seen any environmentalist trying to help.