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[QUOTE="KTMrad, post: 117277, member: 22365"] John Stossel Challenges the Doomsayers Warnings on Genetic Engineering, Human Cloning and Global Warming, in a One-Hour Special, Tampering with Nature with John Stossel, Airing Friday, June 29 In a one-hour special, ABC News Correspondent John Stossel investigates the outcry over genetic engineering and human cloning and challenges the dire warnings surrounding global warming and bovine growth hormone. Why have recent advances in science been met with fear, protests, even acts of terrorism? Why is the industrial society that helped make our comfortable lives possible treated with suspicion and contempt? Stossel challenges the activists who say we're destroying the earth's ecosystem with everything from genetic engineering to greenhouse gases. Tampering with Nature airs FRIDAY, June 29, 10-11 p.m. ET on the ABC Television Network. Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore, who has quit Greenpeace, says the environmental movement has been hijacked by political activists. "They're using environmental rhetoric to cloak agendas like class warfare and anti-corporatism that, in fact, have almost nothing to do with ecology," Moore tells Stossel. Lately, the greenhouse effect and global warming have been all over the news. But Stossel interviews climatologists who say there is no consensus that global warming is harming the planet. They point to the often-overlooked fact that huge piles of federal funding are at stake. Says Pat Michaels of the University of Virginia: "Let's imagine there's a senate hearing, and the senator who disburses the funds goes to the administrator of NASA and says, 'I've heard global warming is the most serious problem confronting mankind. Can your agency use another $2 billion a year to study this thing?' What's he gonna say? No?" Moreover, Stossel points out that even if greenhouse gases were restricted, at a cost of trillions of dollars to U.S. taxpayers, it is estimated that this would prevent a rise in temperature of only a fraction of a degree. Despite great improvements in the U.S. environment, schoolkids are often given one-sided presentations about the horrors of industrial society. Some educators and activists are enlisting students to protest the Bush White House as part of their school curriculum, and are delivering presentations that leave some kids fearful about the fate of humanity. "If we don't stop [global warming]," says one student, "we could all die." Stossel then turns to cloning and interviews Dr. Panos Zavos, who hopes to clone human beings soon with new technology. "It's a marvelous thing," says Zavos, a reproductive specialist who wants to help infertile couples have babies. "We have more than 1,000 couples that want to be cloned," he says. Anti-cloning activist Rev. Patrick Mahoney disagrees, asking what will become of deformed children created by this new technique. "Who takes care of that child?" Stossel reports that genetic engineering is already saving lives through cutting-edge medical treatments, despite activists' fears. Biotech is also helping to make food more plentiful, as with bovine growth hormone that increases milk production. But as Stossel finds out, even though the World Health Organization, the FDA and the AMA all say milk from cows given bovine growth hormone is perfectly safe, activists condemn it, one New York protester even likening it to "crack for cows." Many of us romanticize the simple life of groups like the Pilgrims, but life without modern technology is tough-often fatal. Half the Pilgrims died. That's something to keep in mind when people insist that we should never "tamper with nature." Stossel concludes that we alter our environment not to destroy but "to make our lives better in a hundred ways." ABCNEWS.com, the 24-hour news service of ABC News and part of the Walt Disney Internet Group, will provide companion programming to the broadcast. Victor Neufeld is the senior executive producer of Tampering with Nature, Martin Phillips the executive producer, and Deborah Colloton and Mark Golden the producers. [/QUOTE]
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