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Trust in Ingenuity

Letter to the South China Morning Post by Simon Patkin

Contrary to what Markus Shaw of the WWF asserts (For the greater good, June 29), the philosophy of conservation harms not helps people’s livelihoods. If we take such philosophy to its logical end then men could not clear land for homes or kill wild beasts to protect themselves from harm. Indeed green resistance to DDT and genetically modified food costs millions of lives a year.

Since the Luddites, conservationists have tried to stop development with a plethora of made-up scary scenarios and three card montes such as “sustainable development”. However, the human mind is the greatest resource and it constantly finds new ways to provide, both for now and the future. With technology and free enterprise, life expectancy has risen to over 70 in the West and America has gone from a population of 2 million to almost 300 million. Further known reserves of minerals and fossil fuels continue to grow as men discover new ways to extract these resources.

Unlike environmentalists, some such as myself take human life, not privation as the proper standard of moral value. As such the governing principle is that we must continue to reshape our environment to continue to thrive and prosper.

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