\"Like the scares promoted in Our Stolen Future on Earth Day five years ago, the case of earlier puberty is not established. But by the time this scare is discredited, as it almost certainly will be, the greens will have moved on to a new scare, and the public will be erroneously convinced that synthetic chemicals are causing all sorts of harmful effects...\"

David Henderson examines the CSR doctrine, subjecting it to fundamental criticisms. He argues that, far from being harmless, the adoption of "corporate social responsibility" threatens prosperity in poor countries as well as wealthy ones. CSR is likely to reduce competition and economic freedom and to undermine the market economy.
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"Rachel Carson, who died in 1964, is largely credited with launching the modern environmentalist movement with her book Silent Spring. Published in 1962, it alleged that widespread agricultural use of the pesticide DDT was the cause of enormous environmental harm, in particular to birds and their egg shells. Her treatise led to the banning of DDT in many countries. Last week the United Nations outlawed the dirty dozen chemicals [including DDT] the greens love to hate."

\"The problem with the ending of patent protection, though, is that in the long term we all lose, especially those in developing countries. And that will be the outcome if the pharmaceutical companies fail in their attempt starting on March 5 in Pretoria High Court to overturn legislation that allows patent-breaking anti-AIDS drugs to be imported from India...\"