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| Friday, 17 December 2004 00:00 | ||||
To the beat of African drums and in the presence of an audience that included European royalty and Oprah Winfrey, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai received her Nobel Peace Prize last week ("Environmentalist claims peace prize," World, Saturday). "Today," she said, "we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system." Undoubtedly, she is referring to the United States and the fact that it uses most of the world's energy sources. Like others with the same viewpoint, she ignores the fact that the United States also produces the great majority of the world's human output. Think of what would happen to our "life support system" if the production of oil stopped; if the for-profit prescription drug industry were halted or nationalized (say by the United Nations); if the American agricultural industry collapsed; or if the American dollar could no longer serve as the basis for most of the civilized world's currency. It's easy to stand in front of Miss Winfrey and European royalty and criticize the world for harming its "life-support system." What would be much more challenging and admirable would be to name what the world's life-support system truly is -- the values of the rational mind, the productivity it entails and the capitalism it requires -- and to champion those. Not a chance you'll hear a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize doing that anytime soon.
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